This fixes the bug of treating volume allocation as an offset from the start of the file instead of a total of allocated bytes.
The mysterious error message: "invalid argument: can't shrink capacity below existing allocation" is not addressed by this series Ján Tomko (3): use virFileAllocate in virStorageFileResize virStorageFileResize: fallocate the whole capacity Shrink volume even with ALLOCATE flag src/storage/storage_util.c | 3 +-- src/util/virfile.c | 11 +++++++++++ src/util/virfile.h | 2 ++ src/util/virstoragefile.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++----------------- src/util/virstoragefile.h | 1 - 5 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) -- 2.13.0 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list