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| author | Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> | 2012-08-18 22:27:17 +0100 |
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| committer | Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com> | 2012-08-19 15:35:14 +0100 |
| commit | cd1627e8041ffa06764ef82b984f4291660edcc9 (patch) | |
| tree | feec53743f66f951a1ccf28be46c543514e31c6a /sparsify | |
| parent | d67e6ea75dde6309ce4c6162a4a0429ab8d6709b (diff) | |
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FAQ: virt-sparsify and raw sparse output.
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diff --git a/sparsify/virt-sparsify.pod b/sparsify/virt-sparsify.pod index 14f7eecb..b716350b 100644 --- a/sparsify/virt-sparsify.pod +++ b/sparsify/virt-sparsify.pod @@ -25,6 +25,19 @@ Virt-sparsify can operate on any disk image, not just ones from virtual machines. If a virtual machine has more than one attached disk, you must sparsify each one separately. +=head2 IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT SPARSE OUTPUT IMAGES + +If the input is raw, then the default output is raw sparse. B<You +must check the output size using a tool that understands sparseness> +such as C<du -sh>. It can make a huge difference: + + $ ls -lh test1.img + -rw-rw-r--. 1 rjones rjones 100M Aug 8 08:08 test1.img + $ du -sh test1.img + 3.6M test1.img + +(Compare the apparent size B<100M> vs the actual size B<3.6M>) + =head2 IMPORTANT LIMITATIONS =over 4 |