Bug 1196973

Summary: RFE: virt-customize --truncate
Product: [Community] Virtualization Tools Reporter: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
Component: libguestfsAssignee: Maros Zatko <mzatko>
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Description Richard W.M. Jones 2015-02-27 08:45:08 UTC 
Description of problem:

There should be a virt-customize --truncate option which
truncates a file (keeping its permissions etc).  The
use for this is to truncate log files and so on, eg.

 virt-builder --truncate /var/log/messages

Maybe even consider a recursive truncate which truncates
all files in a directory, eg:

 virt-builder --truncate-recursive /var/log

Additional information:

Suggested by NuxRo on IRC.