On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 06:23:13PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > > > Using virt-sparsify seems to take even longer, but does get it down to 208M. > > > That requires libguestfs, which we can't do in the current build system, but > > > will be able to in the future one. (Feature rescheduled for F20.) > > Why not use fstrim on the image file? > Um. Because no good reason? This is both fast and produces the smallest > size. > There was some problem with it months ago, and I had discarded it as an > option. But clearly that was wrong! I remembered / re-discovered the reason: it fails in virt-install with "fstrim: /: FITRIM ioctl failed: Operation not supported". I should probably figure out *why* rather than just avoiding it, though. :) -- Matthew Miller ☁☁☁ Fedora Cloud Architect ☁☁☁ <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ cloud mailing list cloud@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/cloud