On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Alexandre Santos <santosam72(a)gmail.com>wrote:
2012/11/18 Cristian Falcas <cristi.falcas(a)gmail.com>
> Hi all,
>
> I see that exporting a VM with ThinProvisioning will make an image with
> the full disk size, instead of the currently used size:
> - VM has a 20GB disk
> - installed OS is taking 1.3GB
> - exported disk is taking 20GB
>
> Is this mandatory? Couldn't the export make a file with the same size,
> also sparse? It seems it only does a copy of the folder and the normal
> linux cp can make a sparse copy.
>
> thank you,
> Cristian Falcas
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Is it exporting a a raw image, right?
Alex
Hi Alex,
I don't understand what you mean by raw.
I was saying that the same file could be copied as a sparse file instead.
Cristian