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jojo06

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Registered: 2023-11-04

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[SOLVED]Undeleted parts of a VBox Windows installation

I installed Windows on VBox until a few days ago (after several failed attempts) and now I am installing it with QEMU/KVM. But I have the following situation; I have a /home separated file directory and /root allocated 30GB.

The last time I had 15GB of empty space, with a 10GB .iso file it was almost full. During the 2nd install I suddenly got a "disk full" warning, but I was installing windows on my second hard drive, dev/sda, not on /dev/sdb.

But in the name of installation and to free up space before cleanup, I took 30GB from /home and increased /root by 30GB.

Now again the 60GB disk is 90% full. Where's the problem? How can I find those files?

lsblk -f

NAME                  FSTYPE      FSVER    LABEL UUID                                   FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
sda                                                                                                    
└─sda1                ntfs                       60088AF635AAE556                        236.6G     5% /mnt/windows
sdb                                                                                                    
├─sdb1                vfat        FAT32          8814-3939                                             
└─sdb2                LVM2_member LVM2 001       KuCICM-uF8H-711T-0cDH-VWAR-0XWe-xtjiUF                
  ├─volgroup0-lv_root ext4        1.0            44767b06-8ec6-4e6b-a84b-41ddf38ca9f6      5.6G    86% /
  └─volgroup0-lv_home ext4        1.0            08aeb0db-0f82-4f0a-94ba-4a7f4f8b1e22    154.8G     3% /home
sr0                                                                                                    

EDIT: I think I found the cause of the problem but I don't know how to fix it. sda (2nd disk) 1TB hard disk. I created a 250GB partition for windows. VBox created a 150GB disk. Yes nothing is installed but still windows is installed and running. How come only 5% is being used? As I suspected somehow windows using sdb or data is in sdb.
EDIT2: Tried:

I created a folder called /media/sda4 and it was located in sdb. Vbox files are there,

sudo mkdir -p /mnt/sda/windows
sudo mv /media/sda4/* /mnt/sda/windows
sudo rmdir /media/sda4
sudo umount /mnt/windows 
sudo rmdir /mnt/windows

It was kinda duplicating and connected with sdb but nope still %86 using.

Removing all the files of Windows, partitions and vbox himself & uninstalling solved it. Now the used is %30

Last edited by jojo06 (2023-12-04 14:23:48)