[lxc-users] About size of images

[Marcel Sánchez Toledano]

You mean symbolic links? I don't think so.

Anyway, a *du -hs* in that folder should return the real size, including
the sizes of symbolic links original files.



*Marcel Sánchez Toledano*



2014-07-17 14:19 GMT+02:00 Oliver Rath <rath at mglug.de>:

>  Possybly your lxc installation uses links instead of real files?
>
> Regards
> Oliver
>
>
>
> On 17.07.2014 14:12, Marcel Sánchez Toledano wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>  I'm right now working in a project comparing SIMCTL (VNUML utility, UML)
> with LxC. In VNUML the aprox. size of virtual machines filesystems located
> in /usr/share/vnuml/filesystems are 2GB:
>
>
> *marcel at ubuntu:/usr/share/vnuml/filesystems$ ls -lh *
> *total 4.1G*
> *-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.0G Oct  9  2013 debian5.fs*
> *-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.0G Jul  3 07:52 debian6.fs*
>
>
>  And the size of a LxC rootfs is 246MB:
>
>  [image: Imatge inserida 1]
>
>
>  How is this possible and which is the explanation of this? The
> difference of sizes is huge!
>
>  Thanks,
>
>  *Marcel Sánchez Toledano*
>
>
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