lorin at nimbisservices
Aug 20, 2012, 7:18 PM
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On Aug 20, 2012, at 10:11 PM, Shake Chen <shake.chen [at] gmail> wrote:
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> On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Lorin Hochstein <lorin [at] nimbisservices> wrote:
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> On Aug 20, 2012, at 12:47 PM, Samuel Winchenbach <swinchen [at] gmail> wrote:
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>> Hi all,
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>> I launched a large (100 GB) VM and made the changes I wanted
>> (installed software, created users, etc...) and made a snapshot.
>> Now I would like to launch VMs from that snapshot with a smaller disk
>> size, but no mater what flavor I select it always creates a 100GB
>> image.
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>> Is there a way to reduce the ext4 partition size inside the qcow2 disk
>> image? It might involve creating a new image file and cloning over
>> the original image? If so what tools do you use for the cloning?
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> Sam:
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> You can mount the qcow2 image in your file system using qemu-nbd (see http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/QEMU/Images#Mounting_an_image_on_the_host) and then resize the partition using the e2fsprogs tools (e.g., see http://en.positon.org/post/Resize-an-ext3-ext4-partition).
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> I believe you can also use libguestfs <http://libguestfs.org/> as an alternative to qemu-nbd, but I've never tried it.
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> whether is possible done it auto when create snapshot?
Whoops, I didn't read the original post closely enough. I'm not sure how to manipulate a qcow2 image that was created as a snapshot.
Take care,
Lorin
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Lorin Hochstein
Lead Architect - Cloud Services
Nimbis Services, Inc.
www.nimbisservices.com
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