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Re: [Xen-users] weird domU sizes

To: Brian Krusic <brian@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] weird domU sizes
From: Javier Guerra <javier@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:02:46 -0500
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On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Brian Krusic <brian@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> So I shutdown my domU (for backing it up) and do du -h
> /var/lib/xen/images/host.img
>
> ... shows 18GB
>
> So I copy it to my NFS mounted backup machine and upon doing a du -h
> /nfs-share/backups/host.img
>
> ... show 7.6GB.
>
> I log on to that NFS server and its still shows 7.6GB
>
> So when I scp it to a remote filesystem the image shows as 300GB!

just guessing.... is your image a raw sparse file?, and the Dom0 and
NFS server have different blocksizes?




-- 
Javier

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