Re: [Xen-users] sparse to no sparse

[Paras pradhan <pradhanparas@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the info guys.

Paras.

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Alexandre Kouznetsov <alk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> El 26/09/12 17:43, Paras pradhan escribió:
>
>> 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?.
>
>
> I do not know the goal of doing such thing, so this maybe will work for for
> you, or maybe not.
>
> You can try do this form within the VM, of course without shutting it down.
> Make it to fill with garbage (or zeros, or whatever) the unallocated space
> of it's FS. This way, you will force the undrlaying sparse image file to
> occupy it's full length.
>
> "wipe unallocated space" are your keywords.
>
> --
> Alexandre Kouznetsov
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