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60 60  # Recovering unused space from a virtual disk images{{id name="virt-sparsify"/}}
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62 -libvirt offers a utility called virt-sparsify, which helps with recovering unused space from virtual disk images, reducing their size on disk. This is particularly useful with images in the QCOW2 format.
62 +libvirt offers a utility called `virt-sparsify`, which helps with recovering unused space from virtual disk images, reducing their size on disk. This is particularly useful with images in the QCOW2 format.
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64 64  The utility can either be used in-place or create a new image. In either case, the virtual machine has to be shutdown before starting the process. To use the in-place variant, use the following command:
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