reduce ova export disk size

[launeric]

Greeting dear community,

My ova export disk used to be around 13G and I did an export to backup my VM recently and find out the size increase to 27G which is more than double.
Is it a way I can figure out what contribute to this increase in size ?

I would rather figure this out than reverse back to an earlier back up of my VM


-Thx!

[Perryg]

OVA is a compression routine. Depending on what has been added to the guest there is not too much you can do.

[launeric]

which mean my best option is to diff the file system of my bloated 27G VM and and earlier incarnation of the 13G VM ??

And perhaps get rid of whatever I have added between these two diff ??

[Perryg]

Well that would be a way yes.