[PLUG] Virtualbox Issue?

[Dick Steffens]

On 12/01/2015 10:10 AM, Ken Stephens wrote:
> Dick Steffens wrote:
>> On 12/01/2015 07:59 AM, Robert Citek wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 10:02 PM, Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com> wrote:
>>>> I run Windows 7 on VirtualBox.
>>> To be sure I understand correctly, Ubuntu 14.04 is the host OS running
>>> the VirtualBox hypervisor, which runs a VM instance that has Windows 7
>>> as a guest OS.  Is that correct?
>> Yes.
>>
>>>> The virtual C: drive has a capacity of 24.8 GB, and has only 18.6 MB
>>>> free space.
>>> ...
>>>> I thought it was an Win7 problem, but can't find any large files in
>>>> temporary or hidden locations, so I'm wondering if it's somehow related
>>>> to VitrualBox.
>>> What is taking up the 24.8 GB?  Is there a Windows 7 equivalent to
>>> running a 'du' ? e.g.
>>>
>>> du -ma / | sort -rn | head
>> I don't know about an equivalent command, but a slow and dirty approach
>> was to search through the places where temporary files go, and I set it
>> so I could see hidden files. I didn't find anything out of the ordinary,
>> just a small handful of files showing KB sizes.
>>
>>> A quick-n-dirty workaround may be to attach another virtual disk to
>>> your Windows 7 instance.
>> I spoke with tech support for GearPlayer. He said that they run
>> GearPlayer on virtual Windows 7 machines hosted on Windows Server, but
>> he's never seen a virtual Windows 7 install in less than 40 or 50 GB,
>> and that that's barely enough to keep up with Windows updates. I've got
>> mine in 25 GB. I did the install back in August of 2014, but I can't
>> find any notes, so I don't know if I took a default virtual disk size or
>> set something on my own. I've got a laptop with another transcription
>> program on it that I'll use this morning to get today's work out, but
>> after that I'll follow up on some instructions I found on the web for
>> increasing the size of the virtual hard drive. If worse comes to worse I
>> can always recreate the virtual machine and reinstall GearPlayer on it.
>> There's an advantage to this in that I would do the installation on the
>> 1TB drive Ubuntu 14.04 is on instead of the drive Ubuntu 12.04 is on,
>> which is where I installed Windows 7. I've been pointing VirtualBox at
>> that drive to get the Windows 7 virtual machine. It appeared to be
>> working for a couple of weeks. I noticed that I had something under 100
>> MB available on the virtual drive yesterday, but this morning it's down
>> to zero. I don't know what would be filling up that drive. I don't run
>> anything else on it except GearPlayer, and the tech support guy
>> confirmed that since I keep the audio files on a shared drive, and don't
>> use Gear Player features to fetch the files from an ftp site, and don't
>> use their "completed" feature to save backup copies of the audio files
>> when I'm finished with them, that there's nothing GearPlayer is doing to
>> chew up space.
>>
>> Thanks for the reply. I'll dig into it more after I finish today's
>> assignment.
>>
>>
> Dick,
>
> Get windirstat command at https://windirstat.info/download.html.  It
> will get you a map of your windows system that will tell you exactly
> what you need to know about file sizes.

Thanks. I'll do that. But at this point there's zero available space, so 
I'll need to extend the virtual drive first before I can install it.

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Regards,

Dick Steffens