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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/6/16 8:02 AM, Merlijn van Deen
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 5 March 2016 at 20:18, Mr.
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<div style="word-wrap:break-word">38G
523df61c-07f0-41ba-924d-e2b8e474b4d7
tools-exec-cyberbot tools marc
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<div>What on Earth could Cyberbot be generating?
Nothing in its folder amounts to that size!!!!</div>
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<div>The storage is 'flexible', but it doesn't shrink. This
means that if you have a 80GB disk, with only 20GB filled,
it will use 20GB on the VM server. If you then fill the
disk, it will use 80GB on the VM server. However, if you
now delete 60GB of data, it will <i>still</i> use 80GB on
the VM server. Andrew pointed out in an earlier email that
it's possible to reclaim the space by shutting down the
instance and compressing it, or by creating a new
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I ran a test of this on Friday and the recompressing process
(qemu-img convert -O qcow2) didn't actually save me much space --
the instance had about 50 Gb of 'empty' space in it but recomressing
only recaptured about 2Gb. I'm not sure if there's a better process
than the one I'm using; it is nonetheless useful to delete unneeded
files, though, since it prevents future footprint growth.<br>
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