Re: [Xen-users] sparse to no sparse

[Mark van Dijk <lists+xen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Fajar A. Nugraha's message from 27 sep 2012:
>On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 5:43 AM, Paras pradhan
><pradhanparas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> I have an old Xen para virt vm which I created using sparse file. Is
>> there any way to convert this vm image to non-sparse without shutting
>> down the vm?.
>
>No.
>
Can't you fill it up with zeros and then delete the file? i.e. on the
domu, dd if=/dev/zero of=null.tmp; rm null.tmp.


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