williams2 that was not anything I intended to do. I certainly hope I did not do it. I checked that the VM was actually running off the virtual hard drive and not the iso in the virtual optical drive since I want it to be "installed" like my host operating system to save persistent data.
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- Thu Mar 03, 2022 6:37 am
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: FossaPup64 virtualbox VM had 5gb hard drive then suddenly out of space
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- Thu Mar 03, 2022 1:52 am
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: FossaPup64 virtualbox VM had 5gb hard drive then suddenly out of space
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Re: FossaPup64 virtualbox VM had 5gb hard drive then suddenly out of space
Interesting Phoenix. 'initrd/pup_ro" has many directories, but not so many files there. I could find, within my initrd/mnt/dev_save/fossapup64bit95/fossapup64 savefile, another directory to another savefile, which has a huge directory tree and can go to initrd/mnt/dev_save with a third subdirectory ...
- Wed Mar 02, 2022 12:26 am
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: FossaPup64 virtualbox VM had 5gb hard drive then suddenly out of space
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Re: FossaPup64 virtualbox VM had 5gb hard drive then suddenly out of space
Why not use Gdmap on the base directory '/'? It will then use every single directory and file even if its a separate filesystem (because it was mounted meaning you might get unexpected sizes that are larger than your virtual disk. I did not know enough about linux even to select just / and check in ...
- Tue Mar 01, 2022 1:06 am
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: FossaPup64 virtualbox VM had 5gb hard drive then suddenly out of space
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Re: FossaPup64 virtualbox VM had 5gb hard drive then suddenly out of space
Within dev_save there are a lot of files. Some are 220mb+ sfs files like adrv_fossapup64_9.5.sfs and some are 20mb like nouveau_dri.so, libxul.so was from firefox and has 20mb, there are just a ton of files. I'm also regretting naming my VM fossapup65_9.5 since I'm not sure what the system was and ...
- Mon Feb 28, 2022 1:25 am
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: FossaPup64 virtualbox VM had 5gb hard drive then suddenly out of space
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Re: FossaPup64 virtualbox VM had 5gb hard drive then suddenly out of space
Per GDmap, 3.34gb are being taken up in initrd/mnt/dev_save and 1.47gb in /usr/ I also wiped out the cache. Should I just start wiping things out in dev_save? I feel like there is progress since wiping the cache allows text files to be saved at least. However df -h still says /dev/sda1 still is 4.9g ...
- Sat Feb 26, 2022 7:40 pm
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: FossaPup64 virtualbox VM had 5gb hard drive then suddenly out of space
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Re: FossaPup64 virtualbox VM had 5gb hard drive then suddenly out of space
Phoenix: I went into mnt/home/fossapup64bit95 as a directory. Within the directory, fossapup64save is 4.1gb, which is MOST of the way to filling up the hard drive. To see what was in that directory I right clicked for properties. It said this about mnt/home/fossapup64bit95 in the popup: Real ...
- Fri Feb 25, 2022 12:52 am
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: FossaPup64 virtualbox VM had 5gb hard drive then suddenly out of space
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Re: FossaPup64 virtualbox VM had 5gb hard drive then suddenly out of space
Phoenix, the command you suggested ls -lh <path/to/directory/of/savefile> gives "bash: syntax error near unexpected token `newline' If I were supposed to have ls -lh and then follow it up with some directory that has the savefile, I have the problems of 1) not knowing where that is and 2) not ...
- Thu Feb 24, 2022 5:17 am
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: FossaPup64 virtualbox VM had 5gb hard drive then suddenly out of space
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Re: FossaPup64 virtualbox VM had 5gb hard drive then suddenly out of space
Phoenix, the "df -h" shows unionfs is taking up 4.9gb, which is effectively the virtual machine's entire hard drive.
I am a very raw beginner so I apologize that I do not know anything about the savefile nor journaling. I did not even know they existed until now.
- Wed Feb 23, 2022 7:16 am
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: FossaPup64 virtualbox VM had 5gb hard drive then suddenly out of space
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Re: FossaPup64 virtualbox VM had 5gb hard drive then suddenly out of space
Williams2: Putting "df -h" in the console shows that unionfs is using 4.9gb of the 5gb virtual hard drive That is a lot - especially since I can't even find unionfs in the file manager. I don't even know what unionfs is but a quick web search says its a utility to merge files together. 4.9GB is a ...
- Tue Feb 22, 2022 9:00 pm
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: FossaPup64 virtualbox VM had 5gb hard drive then suddenly out of space
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FossaPup64 virtualbox VM had 5gb hard drive then suddenly out of space
I installed FossaPup64 in a Virtualbox VM. To be clear, this is not running off the iso but rather a virtual 5gb hard drive where I have previously saved text files and installed Firefox. I saw there was plenty of space left on the virtual hard drive, and I shut down the VM repeatedly after using it ...
- Tue Feb 15, 2022 7:43 am
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: How to use Firefox in Fossapup64 in a VM?
- Replies: 5
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Re: How to use Firefox in Fossapup64 in a VM?
Thank you Rockedge, Wiz57 and mikewalsh. All of these work and make Puppy work exactly right. How nice it is to have a super speed in a virtual machine on a low spec computer! Awesome!
- Sun Feb 13, 2022 7:46 pm
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: How to use Firefox in Fossapup64 in a VM?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 498
Re: How to use Firefox in Fossapup64 in a VM?
It works! Thank you for the assistance and the welcome to the "kennels" :) It lead to a new question though. I set Firefox as the default browser within Puppy Linux but the "browser" link on the desktop and the taskbar both claim to be pointing at the default browser, but choose Pale Moon instead ...
- Fri Feb 11, 2022 10:24 pm
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: How to use Firefox in Fossapup64 in a VM?
- Replies: 5
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How to use Firefox in Fossapup64 in a VM?
Hi. I'm totally new to Puppy Linux and installed Fossa 64 bit 9.5 in a Virtual Box virtual machine so I can separate the web from my main computer for more security. I want all the cool plugins I used from Firefox but can't seem to find any way to get it from the "Install" icon on the desktop and it ...