Dick Steffens wrote: > 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. > > 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. Ken _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
