Re: [Fedora-xen] resizing Xen para-virtualized guest partition

[Paul Wouters <paul xelerance com>]

On Tue, 8 May 2007, John Summerfield wrote:

> btw You can create sparse files in the first place:
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/ext-fs seek=$((4*1024*1024)) count=0
> mke2fs -F -q /tmp/ext-fs

I understood that using sparse files will significantly slow down
the xenu for the first time, as it keeps growing the fs allocation
underneath it.

Paul