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Is there any way to shrink qcow2 image without converting it raw?

I cannot convert it to raw because I don't have disk space enough for raw image.

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try virt-sparcify - it will zerofill the unused blocks in the image and then deduplicate the zeroes

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Thanks for you answer, but virt-sparcify said it cannot resize disk images and I found virt-resize from that, but looks like I still need to allocate spaces to expand (that I don't have enough spaces on my harddisk). Anyway, Thank you very much for you info. – YOU Sep 27 '12 at 8:17
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You can also try 

qemu-img convert -c -O qcow2 source.qcow2 shrunk.qcow2

Before running above command be sure to shutdown the VM. After you are satisfied with the result, you can rename shrunk.qcow2 to original name your VM config wants.

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