Linux Container Bigger Than Expected

mstarks01

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Holiday greetings!

I downloaded the Ubuntu Minimal cloud image from here, specifically, ubuntu-18.04-minimal-cloudimg-amd64-root.tar.xz. I then created a 2GB disk container and fired it up. To my surprise, it was 417MB when I expected the uncompressed container size to be under 200MB, About half the size is coming from /usr/lib.

My question is: does Proxmox add anything to the containers in order to make them run properly?
 
Thank you. I was able to find what I needed here. I'm having problems with that one, but I'll create a new thread.