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Shrink sparse cqow2 disc image

Posted on 2016-03-30 by Gerhard

There might be cases when a VM temporarily used a lot of disk space which is then not needed any more. The sparse disk image format qcow2 will grow as the disk space is used, but it does not automatically shrink. … Continue reading →

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