I have a proxmox installation.I'd like to import a vmdk to a lvm and the procedure is:$ qemu-img convert -p -f vmdk IE11 - Win7-disk1.vmdk -O raw IE11 - Win7-disk1.rawand then:$ dd if=IE11 - Win7-disk1.raw bs=1M|pv| dd of=/dev/mapper/pve-vm--103--disk--1And that works fine.But there are 8.8GB data on a 127GB virtual drive: $ qemu-img info IE11 - Win7-disk1.rawimage: IE11 - Win7-disk1.rawfile format: rawvirtual size: 127G (136365211648 bytes)disk size: 8.8GAnd when I dd the raw drive I see 127GB copied when only 8.8G of them matter.And that's painstakingly slow.Is there a better way?
'dd' raw drives to lvm is inefficient. Is there a better way?
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