[ovirt-users] Reclaim disk space of thin disks

30 Mar 2016

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Hi,

is there a way to "shrink" a thin disk image to reclaim deleted space like
using virt-sparsify?

Or can it be done by making a snapshot and clone the VM to a new one?

Thanks a lot

Christian

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class=3DMsoNormal><span lang=3DEN-US>Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p =
class=3DMsoNormal><span lang=3DEN-US>is there a way to =
„shrink“ a thin disk image to reclaim deleted space like =
using virt-sparsify?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
lang=3DEN-US>Or can it be done by making a snapshot and clone the VM to =
a new one?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
lang=3DEN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=3DMsoNormal><span =
lang=3DEN-US>Thanks a lot<o:p></o:p></span></p><p =
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[ovirt-users] Reclaim disk space of thin disks

Grundmann, Christian