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| author | Christian Krinitsin <mail@krinitsin.com> | 2025-05-30 16:52:07 +0200 |
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| committer | Christian Krinitsin <mail@krinitsin.com> | 2025-05-30 16:52:17 +0200 |
| commit | 9260319e7411ff8281700a532caa436f40120ec4 (patch) | |
| tree | 2f6bfe5f3458dd49d328d3a9eb508595450adec0 /gitlab/issues_text/target_missing/host_missing/accel_missing/688 | |
| parent | 225caa38269323af1bfc2daadff5ec8bd930747f (diff) | |
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diff --git a/gitlab/issues_text/target_missing/host_missing/accel_missing/688 b/gitlab/issues_text/target_missing/host_missing/accel_missing/688 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..0203ec61a --- /dev/null +++ b/gitlab/issues_text/target_missing/host_missing/accel_missing/688 @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +Shrinking an image with qemu-img does not reduce image file size +Description of problem: +I have a macOS 10.9 VM using a qcow2 image that was 151GB. The image was originally converted from a VMware image with: +``` +qemu-img convert macOS-10.9.vmdk -O qcow2 -o preallocation=falloc macOS-10.9.qcow2 +``` +This resulted in `macOS-10.9.qcow2` being 151GB big: +``` +$ du -h macOS-10.9.qcow2 +151G macOS-10.9.qcow2 +``` +After reducing the filesystem size from within macOS to 25GB with DiskUtil, I shut down the VM and resized the image to 30GB with: +``` +qemu-img resize -f qcow2 --shrink macOS-10.9.qcow2 30G +``` +This succeeded. However, the file still consumes 151GB of space: +``` +$ du -h macOS-10.9.qcow2 +151G macOS-10.9.qcow2 +``` +Even though `qemu-img info` shows: +``` +$ qemu-img info macOS-10.9.qcow2 +image: macOS-10.9.qcow2 +file format: qcow2 +virtual size: 30 GiB (32212254720 bytes) +disk size: 30 GiB +cluster_size: 65536 +Format specific information: + compat: 1.1 + compression type: zlib + lazy refcounts: false + refcount bits: 16 + corrupt: false + extended l2: false +``` +The size inside the VM is also reported as being 30GB. + +The whole point of resizing that image was to free up disk space on the host. But this doesn't seem to be happening. + +My filesystem is ext4. +Steps to reproduce: +1. Create a vmdk image with `qemu-img create -f vmdk test.vmdk 5G` +2. Convert the vmdk image to qcow2 with `qemu-img convert test.vmdk -O qcow2 -o preallocation=falloc test.qcow2` +3. Shrink the new image with `qemu-img resize -f qcow2 --shrink test.qcow2 3G` + +The resulting `test.qcow2` file should be 3GB, but it's not. It's 5GB. |