I am not sure if this is a VirtualBox issue or one due to the Guest OS.
I installed VirtualBox 5.2.26 on my iMac Pro running MacOS 10.14.3. During the creation of a VM (in my case I was installing LinuxMint 18.3) I set the virtual disk size for 32GB (dynamic sizing). Installation went through with a few rough patches to do with window sizing but that's not the issue.
Everything seems to go alright until I started getting "out of disk space" problems.
df (on a freshly installed VM) on the linux guest returned the following -
The /dev/shm and /sys/fs/cgroup file systems have between them swallowed up 24GB. This leaves 12GB to be divided up by the other the other filesystems. Its no wonder what I am running into disk space problems.Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 12G 0 12G 0% /dev tmpfs 2.4G 9.1M 2.4G 1% /run /dev/sda1 7.8G 5.8G 1.7G 79% / tmpfs 12G 22M 12G 1% /dev/shm tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock tmpfs 12G 0 12G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup cgmfs 100K 0 100K 0% /run/cgmanager/fs tmpfs 2.4G 24K 2.4G 1% /run/user/1000
I have VirtualBox 5.2.22 running on another iMac with MacOS 10.13.6 and the same LinuxMint 18.3 guest OS. It has a more sensible disk allocation -
Is this a VirtualBox issue or a Linux install issue?Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev tmpfs 798M 9.1M 789M 2% /run /dev/sda1 24G 18G 4.5G 81% / tmpfs 3.9G 1.2M 3.9G 1% /dev/shm tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup cgmfs 100K 0 100K 0% /run/cgmanager/fs tmpfs 798M 20K 798M 1% /run/user/1000
Regards.
Stephen