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running out of space on large NixOS VM tests #35

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@mschwaig

NixOS VM tests and maybe some builds might take a significant amount of space inside of the build sandbox very quickly.

Form trying out this Action, to me it looks like it does not deal with that quickly rising storage requirement in the sandbox very well.

I was trying to use it on this build for example:
https://github.com/mschwaig/laut/actions/runs/16045403232/job/45275426295

... but switched back to what I was using previously, because this action was running out of space:
https://github.com/mschwaig/laut/actions/runs/16048296959/job/45284733118

Would it be possible to address this is some way?
What came to my mind is an option that reclaims all of the space ahead of time, instead of in the background.

Maybe this isn't even about all VM tests, but just because I have some options set to do things like make the store of the VM writable though, so the initial disk image gets assembled from stuff thats already in the store at that point, which is why it gets so large so quickly.

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