Transferring my install to new computer

William Scott Lockwood III scott at guppylog.com
Sun Jun 24 16:20:14 UTC 2012


On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> I could be wrong, but my impression is that sparse-file disk images in
> VMs grow when space is used but do not shrink again when it is freed.

I have in fact re-sparsed disk images. There are several ways to do this.

> In any event, that would not help Compdoc, whose problem concerns the
> Logical Volume Management disk format, rather than any form of virtual
> machine.

That depends. a virtual disk can be an excellent middle state in
fixing problems.

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Regards,
W. Scott Lockwood




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