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Larry Norton
5,810 PointsVirtualBox VMs affecting free disk space with 6 separate box-disk.vmdk files.
My available free disk space on my C drive has been decreasing substantially since installing the Treehouse VM. Looking in my VirtualBox VMs folder then the Treehouse folder within the VMs folder I have:
box-disk2.vmdk 4,498,368 KB modified 4/9/2014 box-disk2.vmdk_1 4,026,560 KB modified 4/20/2014 box-disk2.vmdk_2 3,864,128 KB modified 5/3/2014 box-disk2.vmdk_3 3,864,128 KB modified 6/1/2014 box-disk2.vmdk_4 3,864,000 KB modified 6/1/2014 box-disk2.vmdk_5 5,098,816 KB modified 7/12/2014
That is a total of about 24 Gigabytes, so it would appear that something is occurring that is not appropriate. I have changed the filename of the first box-disk2.vmdk to box-disk.vmdk.bak and the VM seems to be working ok.
Could someone help me understand what is going on? Can I delete the five earlier box-disk2.vmdk files?.
Running a Windows 8.1 professional with a solid state drive.
1 Answer
Greg Kitchin
31,522 PointsWhen you made the VM's, did you make them dynamic rather than fixed size? Dynamic means it will expand while it fills with data, which sounds like what is happening.
The below link says that you can't change between the two, but you can copy an existing VM and in the process, change how it manages memory. There might be newer way to do it though, with a more modern version of VirtualBox.