Re: Windows 10 laptop host system

[Jason Marks <jymarks@sbcglobal.net>]

@ A

On Thursday, October 1, 2020, 08:49:18 PM PDT, goossbears wrote:

> Thanks for clearing up the first point of confusion :-)

> How much total and free diskspace do you have on that Windows 10 laptop?

> Is it at all possible to backup and uninstall/clear-out as many Windows10

> programs and data as are safely possible to free-up significantly more than

> the 2.3GB freed from last night??

> If it's possible to free-up 30 GB or more on the laptop's Windows 10 partition,

> then why not at the very least just create/"re-install" a duplicate of the fallback

> Ubuntu 18.04 VM(s),

> but this time dynamically allocating the just-created virtual disk image/.vdi

> to that 30 GB maximum?

> After successfully doing so,  then the originally "hard set" 10 GB VM(s) could

> be conceivably deleted and thus free-up further Windows 10 diskspace for

> current (e.g., Linux Mint 19) and future

> (e.g., other Linux distro) VirtualBox guest needs.

> -A

That sounds way too logical for me, but yes, I'm moving in that general direction. ;o)

• The 2.3GB was freed up "inside" one of the 10GB Lubuntu 18.04 VMs
• ( mistakenly referred to as Ubuntu 18.04 previously )
• I'm not sure that a VM can be transferred to a new, bigger VM. It seems that one needs to make a new one and reinstall/uninstall apps ... err set it up how one likes all over again. That might not be all bad.
• As for the host hdd. It's 1TB half of which contains family pix/vids. The Server, that I've mentioned from time to time, is supposed to become a centralized (LAN only, for now) repository for those pix & vids. Which will help free up a little space ... Will ask more specific Q's about this in a new thread.
• Beyond that, I did find a certain programming language, that I've attempted to learn, installed 3x when I only need 1 (at most?). That cleared up 4GB!
• Slightly related to all of this is that backing up one giant file, say a VM for instance, is much, much faster than backing up a ton of little files that have the same cumulative size.
• This may be due to the fact I'm still using mechanical internal & external usb hdd's

peace & 42

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