On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 03:46:33PM -0500, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
OK, another try. Preallocate a file using dd if=/dev/zero
of=/var/lib/libvirt/images/xxx.img bs=1024 count=12587000 and the
result is a 12GB (more or less) virtual disk.
I would recommend using the 'fallocate' command, and not 'dd' for
this. fallocate uses a system call which tells the filesystem your
intentions. It's also much faster.
Rich.
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