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	Admin Notes / How to shrink qcow file

	Before shirinking it would be best if you defragmented the image first and then wiped the free space to make sure that files that you have deleted are completely removed. So you may use http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/FileAndDisk/SDelete.mspx. After that use following commands qemu-img convert -c -f qcow -O qcow examples: qemu-img -f qcow Virtual-srv01.qcow -c -O qcow Shrinked-Virtual-srv01.qcow qemu-img convert BY-SRV02-HDD03.img -O qcow2 BY-SRV02-HDD03.qcow

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