[arch-general] wrong size.

[Ng Oon-Ee]

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.