VM files very large

[gaelos]

Hi,

we have installed some VM on proxmox 1.3 and set the hd to 500 Go. The problem is that the drive is using 60 Go but the VM file use 340 Go. Apparently it's not resizing itself when we do not use a lot of space. We used 340 Go at the bigining but we have deleted a lot of files. I thought the virtual drive was dynamic in both ways. Is there a way to fix that ?

Thanks

 

[tom]

Hi,

we have installed some VM on proxmox 1.3 and set the hd to 500 Go. The problem is that the drive is using 60 Go but the VM file use 340 Go. Apparently it's not resizing itself when we do not use a lot of space. We used 340 Go at the bigining but we have deleted a lot of files. I thought the virtual drive was dynamic in both ways. Is there a way to fix that ?

Thanks

you can try 'qemu-img' to convert the big file to a new file.