Good day, everyone. I have VM under PVE 4.1 with 100Gb virtual disk qcow2. Real data usage of guest machine - 10 Gb. I'd like to shrink/decrease size of virtual drive from 100Gb to 20Gb. With Resize Disk command I can only increase virtual drive size. Is any simple way to shrink/decrease virtual drive?
How to shrink/decrease qcow2 size of VM in PVE 4.1?
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Thanks for answer, but I mean different. After this : https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Shrink_Qcow2_Disk_Files size of VM backup and time for operations backup/restore decreased. But I want to reduce size of quest VM disk on Storage from 100Gb to 20 Gb. 
I did following:
stop virtual machine:
qm stop 100
convert the image from qcow2 to raw:
qemu-img convert vm-100-disk-1.qcow2 vm-100-disk-1.raw
then shrink the image the 20G are the new total size:
qemu-img resize -f raw vm-100-disk-1.raw 20G
then convert it back:
qemu-img convert vm-100-disk-1.raw vm-100-disk-1.qcow2
then erase the old .raw image
rm vm-100-disk-1.raw
then edit the "/etc/pve/qemu-server/100.conf" file and change
the the size of the disk to 20G
But when I try to start VM it didn't:
Image is not in qcow2 format.
stop virtual machine:
qm stop 100
convert the image from qcow2 to raw:
qemu-img convert vm-100-disk-1.qcow2 vm-100-disk-1.raw
then shrink the image the 20G are the new total size:
qemu-img resize -f raw vm-100-disk-1.raw 20G
then convert it back:
qemu-img convert vm-100-disk-1.raw vm-100-disk-1.qcow2
then erase the old .raw image
rm vm-100-disk-1.raw
then edit the "/etc/pve/qemu-server/100.conf" file and change
the the size of the disk to 20G
But when I try to start VM it didn't:
Image is not in qcow2 format.
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Before using this command to shrink a disk image, you must use file system and partitioning tools inside the VM itself to reduce allocated file systems and partition sizes accordingly. Failure to do so will result in data loss.
After using this command to grow a disk image, you must use file system and partitioning tools inside the VM to actually begin using the new space on the device.
Any ideas how to solve?
After using this command to grow a disk image, you must use file system and partitioning tools inside the VM to actually begin using the new space on the device.
Any ideas how to solve?