Il 15/10/2012 11:33, Kuniyasu Suzaki ha scritto:
> Hello,
> 
> "delvm" is a command to delete a snapshot image in a qcow2 file.
> However it does not reduce the qcow2 file size.

Note that the file will not grow when new allocations are performed in
the future.

QEMU should also convert the unused clusters to "holes" in the file
system, but it doesn't do that yet.

> Is there any method to reduce the qcow2 file size when I delete a snapshot 
> image?
> should I "convert" the qcow2 file?

I'm not sure what convert does if you have internal snapshots.

Paolo

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