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...reate a 2.4T image file and then do 9 more resizes to bring it up to the full desired size (24T in this case), it only takes like 16 minutes total (I did this on the fuse mount). This includes the first 2.4T qemu-img create (prealloc falloc), followed by 9 resize +2.4T runs. We are avoiding a non-prellocated image as we have had trouble with people assuming available disk space ?is available? and running bricks out of space by accident. We would like to avoid the kludge of calling qemu-img 10 times (or more) to make a larger fallocated image. If there are suggested methods or tunings, please let me kn...

I have a script that syncs my backups to an NFS mount every day The script works fine, without any errors, but there is a problem when it comes to some large files Let's take my pst file (8.9 gig) as an example Source: du -hs mypst.pst 8.9G mypst.pst ls -alh mypst.pst -rw-rw---- 1 me me 8.9G Jan 25 17:07 mypst.pst That seems OK Let's do that on the destination: du -hs mypst.pst