Journal stoolpigeon's Journal: Storage is Cheap but Come On Windows 1
EDIT: I cleaned up restore points and that got the space used down to 27.4 GB - still crazy.
I have a Fedora 20 vm that I run in VirtualBox on my Mac. It gives me access to some tools I like, and it lets me run a web server that's closer to what a production environment would look like.
Yesterday I got around to setting up another VM. This one is Windows 7. I started the same as I did the Fedora image, with a 25 GB hard drive. That was fine for the windows install but I thought I'd check out the new community edition of Visual Studio. When I went to install it, it told me I didn't have enough free disk space. So I made the "hard drive" bigger - I bumped it up to 30 GB. The install worked then, but I have under 600 MB of free space on the drive. I have only installed Chrome and VS. That's it. WIndows 7, Chrome and VS are 30 GB. I've installed a bunch of stuff on my Fedora VM - Apache, MySQL, KDevelop, QT and the QT tools and so on. Lots of stuff and it is sitting at 18 GB right now.
Fortunately it's easy to give the Windows VM more space - it just surprised me I'd need so much.
Caught me too (Score:1)
Face it... Windows needs a 100 gigs. And this is especially true on SSDs and flash, where you need lots of empty space for wear leveling... On a VM I can get by with 50 and just make and attach more 'disks' as needed..
There's also another folder in Windows called 'winsxs' which consumes way too much space. Good chance you'll see tens of gigabytes in there. In fact, it's probably the biggest offender. "Can't touch this"..