[PVE-User] Info on qcow2 clone

[Paul Gray]

On 10/22/2014 11:42 AM, Alessandro Briosi wrote:
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> As stated it's already a sparse file.
> file size is 32GB but on the filesystem it uses only 5GB

Your definition of "sparse" and my definition of "cruft" are colliding here.

"Sparse" == hardly used filesystem.
"cruft" == non-zeroed, *unused* sectors on the disk

Your sparse filesystem likely has a lot of cruft.  The two facets aren't 
mutually exclusive.

-PG