https://stoeps.de/tags/disk/ Recent content in Disk on Hugo -- gohugo.io en christoph.stoettner@stoeps.de (Christoph Stoettner) christoph.stoettner@stoeps.de (Christoph Stoettner) &copy; 2026 Christoph Stöttner - This work is licensed under [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) <span class='footerimg'><img src='https://mirrors.creativecommons.org/presskit/icons/cc.svg' alt='' style='max-width: 1em;max-height:1em;margin-left: .2em;'><img src='https://mirrors.creativecommons.org/presskit/icons/by.svg' alt='' style='max-width: 1em;max-height:1em;margin-left: .2em;'><img src='https://mirrors.creativecommons.org/presskit/icons/sa.svg' alt='' style='max-width: 1em;max-height:1em;margin-left: .2em;'></span> Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:00:00 +0200 https://stoeps.de/posts/2025/convert_qcow2_image_to_thin_provisioning/ Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:00:00 +0200 christoph.stoettner@stoeps.de (Christoph Stoettner) https://stoeps.de/posts/2025/convert_qcow2_image_to_thin_provisioning/ <p>During testing with <a href="https://www.talos.dev/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Talos Kubernetes</a> <a href="https://cozystack.io/docs/install/talos/iso/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">deployments on Libvirt</a>, I encountered an issue where created virtual machines used fully provisioned disks, which consumed the complete configured disk size on the host system.</p>