Libguestfs - May 2020 - Re: virt-sparsify for ntfs (libguestfs-tools-c)

Hi,

On CentOS 8, when using virt-sparsify for a ntfs image, it does not seem 
to work.

Tried virt-sparsify on Fedora 32 and it works great.

Is there some dependent application that need to be installed in CentOS 
8 for virt-sparsify to work on ntfs?

Here are some information.

CentOS 8.
# virt-sparsify -V
virt-sparsify 1.38.4rhel=8,release=14.module_el8.1.0+248+298dec18,libvirt

# virt-sparsify --machine-readable
virt-sparsify
linux-swap
zero
check-tmpdir
in-place
tmp-option

Fedora 32.
# virt-sparsify -V
virt-sparsify 1.42.0fedora=32,release=6.fc32,libvirt

# virt-sparsify --machine-readable
virt-sparsify
linux-swap
zero
check-tmpdir
in-place
tmp-option
ntfs
btrfs

Noticed that the Fedora 32 virt-sparsify --machine-readable has ntfs.

How to get that on CentOS 8?

P.V.Anthony

On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 02:44:19PM +0800, P.V.Anthony
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On CentOS 8, when using virt-sparsify for a ntfs image, it does not
> seem to work.
> 
> Tried virt-sparsify on Fedora 32 and it works great.
> 
> Is there some dependent application that need to be installed in
> CentOS 8 for virt-sparsify to work on ntfs?
Which version of libguestfs-winsupport and/or ntfs-3g is installed?

Rich.

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On 27/5/20 6:16 pm, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Which version of libguestfs-winsupport and/or ntfs-3g is installed?
Wow!!!

Thank you for the advice.

Just installed libguestfs-winsupport and ntfs is showing up when running 
virt-sparsify --machine-readable

Cool!!! Thank you very much for replying.

Will do virt-sparsify now. It should work now.

Thank you again for helping. I was stuck and this helped much.

P.V.Anthony