Oops; looks like I spoke too soon. It's not taking advantage of sparse files when it converts from DD formats:
$ vditool DD VistaQemu.vdi VistaQemu.bin vditool Copyright (c) 2004-2008 innotek GmbH. Converting VDI: from DD image file="VistaQemu.bin" to file="VistaQemu.vdi"... Creating fixed image with size 0 Bytes... The operation completed successfully! Writing data... The operation completed successfully! [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ du -h VistaQemu.vdi 17G VistaQemu.vdi [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ du -h VistaQemu.bin 13G VistaQemu.bin [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -lh VistaQemu.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 sears sears 16G 2008-04-29 18:39 VistaQemu.bin (vditool SHRINK shrinks the file back down to 13G, as expected) -- [hardy] ext3 filesytem dont take care of a big size file > of total partition size https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/201358 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
