qcow2 images not shrinking

[miles]

Hi,

I have one small problem - not really a problem with your great proxmox.

When qcow2 images for kvm are growing and files inside the vm are deleted later, the qcow2 file on the disk is not shrinking.
So there seems to be no possiblity of getting the hdspace back by removing files.

Is this the expected behaviour? Is there any other possiblity for kvm diskimages? Especially it would be cool to have files readable in the host system. I think about creating a lvm volume per vm or something.


Best regards,

Miles

 

[dietmar]

When qcow2 images for kvm are growing and files inside the vm are deleted later, the qcow2 file on the disk is not shrinking.
So there seems to be no possiblity of getting the hdspace back by removing files.Is this the expected behaviour?

yes

Is there any other possiblity for kvm diskimages? Especially it would be cool to have files readable in the host system. I think about creating a lvm volume per vm or something.

that is planned.