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authorRichard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>2011-11-22 09:54:52 +0000
committerRichard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>2011-11-22 09:57:06 +0000
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sparsify: Add --compress option.
This adds the -c option to the final qemu-img command.
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diff --git a/sparsify/virt-sparsify.pod b/sparsify/virt-sparsify.pod
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@@ -104,6 +104,11 @@ image.
Display help.
+=item B<--compress>
+
+Compress the output file. This I<only> works if the output format is
+C<qcow2>.
+
=item B<--convert> raw
=item B<--convert> qcow2
@@ -121,6 +126,8 @@ eg. C<vmdk>, but support for other formats is reliant on qemu.
Specifying the I<--convert> option is usually a good idea, because
then virt-sparsify doesn't need to try to guess the input format.
+For fine-tuning the output format, see: I<--compress>.
+
=item B<--format> raw
=item B<--format> qcow2