[arch-general] wrong size.

[kurrata]

Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 04:13 +0300, kurrata wrote:
>   
>> I noticed that my conky hard drive free space reading dropped from 50+GB 
>> free on /home to under 10GB.
>> I did "du /home/martins/ --max-depth=1 -h" and it showed that "48G     
>> /home/martins/.VirtualBox" is eating up all the space.
>> After that I did "du /home/martins/.VirtualBox/ -h" Output was this:
>> 48G     /home/martins/.VirtualBox/Machines/win_xp/Logs
>> 48G     /home/martins/.VirtualBox/Machines/win_xp
>> 48G     /home/martins/.VirtualBox/Machines
>> 48G     /home/martins/.VirtualBox/
>>
>> This output is showing something very wrong and I checked all my files 
>> with thunar.
>> all files were small with hidden files shown.
>> My virtual disk files(.vdi) are stored on /mnt/extra(other hard drive).
>> I used virtualbox earlier today so it did something most likely
>> Any ideas what could be wrong?
>>     
>
> Looks like you have 48 GB for WinXP logs... probably some out-of-control
> logger for Virtualbox. Try looking into the logs folder itself, it seems
> to indicate something's there at least. Use ls -la in the terminal.
>
>
>   
Hmm...true don't know how I missed that. 1 log file was 47GB big but 
when I opened it it was empty.
O key, I deleted the log file. Started the virtualbox and I am watching 
conky how my free space drops right now and how another empty log file 
is being made.