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Re: [Xen-users] problem with deleting the loopback files

  • To: "Javier Guerra" <javier@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • From: "Jia Rao" <rickenrao@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:07:41 -0400
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No, DomU is not running any more. I just can not free the disk space allocated to the image files, even delete them.

Thanks for reply.

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Javier Guerra <javier@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 3/12/08, Jia Rao <rickenrao@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I created the disk spaces for VMs using loopback files. However I got a
> strange problem. When I deleted the loopback file for the virtual machine to
> free some disk space for the physical machine, it turned out that after
> deletion,  the free disk space is not increased.

are the DomU's still running? on unix systems when you delete a file,
it's not really deleted until no process has it open.

--
Javier

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