I'm attaching instructions that I just used to create a "full disk" image from disk1.img on cloud-images.ubuntu.com. In the instructions 2 things to mention: a.) my 'dd' version failed to boot. I'm not sure why, if I had to guess I would have thought that cp would have failed. Its also possible I just mixed them up. I tried 'cp --sparse' just to ensure that zeros on were zeros. b.) When I created an 8GB root disk, causing growpart to take place, the resize took 10 seconds. bug 1179610 is relevant here, and that would be much shorter time in 12.10 and later. However, I'd suggest that if we're making 8G roots, we go ahead and resize the filesystem up before snapshotting. At least something to think about.
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