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Re: [Xen-users] Why is xen allocating entire disk/file?

To: Charlie Reddington <charlie.reddington@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Why is xen allocating entire disk/file?
From: "Fajar A. Nugraha" <fajar@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:14:59 +0700
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On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Charlie Reddington
<charlie.reddington@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Soon as I kick off the install, I look in /var/lib/xen/images and I see my
> image at 100GB, even though I specified it not to use the hole disk.

How did you check? ls -la?
Try ls -lash. It'll show how much it actually used.

Regards,

Fajar

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