Shrink disks erros: "Cannot resive device files"

[LkS45]

Hello!!



Any ideas? Cause thats not a device file, just a VM disk in raw format.

 

[bbgeek17]

The /dev location is a special place in Linux https://tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/dev.html
It normally does not contain regular files. Do an "ls -al" on that path and you will likely see a special attribute. Its probably a link to a file thats located in /var.

Keep in mind that shrinking raw, qemu or other image files when not done with appropriate preparations, will lead to data loss.

good luck

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Blockbridge : Ultra low latency all-NVME shared storage for Proxmox - https://www.blockbridge.com/proxmox

 

[LkS45]

The /dev location is a special place in Linux https://tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/dev.html
It normally does not contain regular files. Do an "ls -al" on that path and you will likely see a special attribute. Its probably a link to a file thats located in /var.

Keep in mind that shrinking raw, qemu or other image files when not done with appropriate preparations, will lead to data loss.

good luck

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Blockbridge : Ultra low latency all-NVME shared storage for Proxmox - https://www.blockbridge.com/proxmox

I know, but there is no way to allow the application to accept it?