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01/01: doc: Clarify comment about QEMU qcow2 file sizes.


From: Leo Famulari
Subject: 01/01: doc: Clarify comment about QEMU qcow2 file sizes.
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2017 01:11:33 -0400 (EDT)

lfam pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guix.

commit c8f54f5346ef32c56cd2190ec0aff1b07ff13973
Author: Leo Famulari <address@hidden>
Date:   Sat Jun 17 01:05:02 2017 -0400

    doc: Clarify comment about QEMU qcow2 file sizes.
    
    * doc/guix.texi (Installing GuixSD in a Virtual Machine): Clarify comment 
about
    QEMU's qcow2 virtualized block device file format.
---
 doc/guix.texi | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index cb5821e..db0e2fb 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -7799,7 +7799,8 @@ qcow2-formatted disk image, use the @command{qemu-img} 
command:
 qemu-img create -f qcow2 guixsd.img 5G
 @end example
 
-This will create a 5GB file.
+The resulting file will be much smaller than 5GB, but it will grow as
+the virtualized storage device is filled up.
 
 @item
 Boot the USB installation image in an VM:



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