perhaps you can install it to and run it from the remote shared directory you use for storing your recordings?
On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
