The 28/06/13, Edoardo Comar wrote: > > > > I think a good way to get that is to shrink the filesystem of the > > original disk, shrink the disk itself and convert the file-based image > > to the LV like you do. > > > > Once done, you can extend the LV and the filesystem back to what it was > > before the process if needed. > > > > Other than that, I don't know a way to get what you want with the > > current tools. > > Thanks Nicholas, the above seems to have worked. > Quite a few steps, though - so prone to error ... Right. I would let the VMs run some times before deleting the image file. For more sanity, you can try to get 100% filesystem usage to check that allocation works for the whole filesystem space. > When you say 'tools' I think you mean that qemu-img cannot at the moment > support conversion to thin LVs. I meant tools in general: libvirt, qemu, dd, etc. -- Nicolas Sebrecht _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users
