[Libguestfs] Question: running appliance commands over guest fs (resize2fs -P).

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 05:28:40PM +0300, Maxim Perevedentsev wrote:
> On 09/15/2015 04:57 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 04:31:46PM +0300, Maxim Perevedentsev wrote:
> >>Hello everyone!
> >>
> >>I am working on resizing qcow2 images using virt-resize+liguestfs.
> >If you're shrinking, I believe a better way to do this is to sparsify
> >the image.
> And how would it help? If I shrink, a want a VM to occupy less
> maximum space. virt-sparsify (I guess you are talking about it) will
> reduce space taken by guest disk image by now, but won't tighten the
> upper limit for guest.

I've come to think that sparsification is still better, but if you're
sure what you really need is to reduce the virtual size of the
container then of course you'll need to use resize2fs etc.

Rich.

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