On Sunday, October 9, 2016 at 2:54:11 PM UTC, yaqu wrote: > On Sun, 9 Oct 2016 06:19:47 -0700 (PDT), > 8c36b1b85a745a25508d01ced9335bef7a1e4ed1 <necroku...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I have delete a lot of big datas on one of my appvm, but the problem > > is the size doesn't change eventhough 'df -h' in the appvm shows that > > the user's data already decreased. Qubes-Manager and dom0 still > > recognised its size with the old values. How can i proceed to > > decrease it? > > Procedure should be similar to compacting templates: > https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/fedora-template-upgrade-21/#compacting-the-upgraded-template > > Inside VM fill unused space on private.img with zeros: > > [user@untrusted ~]$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/user/zero > [user@untrusted ~]$ rm /home/user/zero > > And then copy image in dom0: > > [user@dom0 ~]$ qvm-shutdown --wait untrusted > [user@dom0 ~]$ cd /var/lib/qubes/appvms/untrusted/ > [user@dom0 ~]$ cp --sparse=always private.img private.img.new > [user@dom0 ~]$ mv private.img.new private.img > > But I have just noticed, that after removing big files in appvm, its > private.img has been automagically compacted, without using this > procedure. Tested on R3.2 and fedora23-based appvm. > > -- > yaqu
Excellent, it's working. Thanks for your answer. I skipped the dd part since I already delete big files before that and its still works. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/1945f553-44e0-4d1d-87db-c3ff0e3ba145%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.