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 <[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.
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. -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
