+# type: =head2
+#: ../tools/virt-resize.pl:238
+msgid "QCOW2 AND NON-SPARSE RAW FORMATS"
+msgstr ""
+
+# type: textblock
+#: ../tools/virt-resize.pl:240
+msgid ""
+"If the input disk is in qcow2 format, then you may prefer that the output is "
+"in qcow2 format as well. Alternately, virt-resize can convert the format on "
+"the fly. The output format is simply determined by the format of the empty "
+"output container that you provide. Thus to create qcow2 output, use:"
+msgstr ""
+
+# type: verbatim
+#: ../tools/virt-resize.pl:246
+#, no-wrap
+msgid ""
+" qemu-img create [-c] -f qcow2 outdisk [size]\n"
+"\n"
+msgstr ""
+
+# type: textblock
+#: ../tools/virt-resize.pl:248
+msgid "instead of the truncate command (use C<-c> for a compressed disk)."
+msgstr ""
+
+# type: textblock
+#: ../tools/virt-resize.pl:250
+msgid "Similarly, to get non-sparse raw output use:"
+msgstr ""
+
+# type: verbatim
+#: ../tools/virt-resize.pl:252
+#, no-wrap
+msgid ""
+" fallocate -l size outdisk\n"
+"\n"
+msgstr ""
+
+# type: textblock
+#: ../tools/virt-resize.pl:254
+msgid ""
+"(on older systems that don't have the L<fallocate(1)> command use C<dd "
+"if=/dev/zero of=outdisk bs=1M count=..>)"
+msgstr ""
+