On 12/01/2015 07:59 AM, Robert Citek wrote: > On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 10:02 PM, Dick Steffens <[email protected]> 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. -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
