Hello.
I'm using VirtualBox 6.0.0 and when I want to delete a Snapshot then it tell me "Not enough free storage space.", How can I solve it?
Thank you.
Unable to merge storage.Not enough free storage.
Unable to merge storage.Not enough free storage.
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socratis
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Re: Unable to merge storage.Not enough free storage.
Free some space on your hard drive?
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Re: Unable to merge storage.Not enough free storage.
Yes. Almost 20GB.socratis wrote:Free some space on your hard drive?
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Re: Unable to merge storage.Not enough free storage.
Maybe it's not enough, 20 GB means absolutely nothing if I don't know how big your snapshots are, how many changes have happened between snapshots, how big is the theoretical VDI size. And even then, the problem is that you can't tell how much space is required beforehand...
Apparently 20 GB is not enough, you need to free some more...
Apparently 20 GB is not enough, you need to free some more...
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Re: Unable to merge storage.Not enough free storage.
How can I see the size of Snapshot?
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Re: Unable to merge storage.Not enough free storage.
Go to File » Virtual Media Manager » Hard Disks. Locate your VDI, and expand its arrow on the left of its name to show the snapshot. The size is right there.
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Re: Unable to merge storage.Not enough free storage.
It was 50.X GB and I removed it and VM backed to the first time. Can I recover snapshot?socratis wrote:Go to File » Virtual Media Manager » Hard Disks. Locate your VDI, and expand its arrow on the left of its name to show the snapshot. The size is right there.
I used "testdisk" for recover it but the recovered file is just 10.5 K
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Re: Unable to merge storage.Not enough free storage.
Did you just delete a snapshot and now you want to recover it?hack3rcon wrote:I removed it ... Can I recover snapshot?
Forget it. Bye, bye snapshot...
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Re: Unable to merge storage.Not enough free storage.
I'm confused - what does it mean to "remove" a snapshot? AFAIK (given that I never use snapshots) none of the snapshot operations is called "Remove".
Deleting a snapshot using the UI should be harmless. Only the marker is removed, no data is lost. However this requires working disk space to merge disk fragments, and would have been the cause of the originally reported error.
If "remove" meant deleting the file using the host OS then the VM would not start. Does not match what was described so can't be this.
If "remove" means "revert" then the VM has been reset to the moment the selected snapshot marker was created. Any data created since that moment is lost, except of course from that backup which you sensibly made when problems first started appearing.
Deleting a snapshot using the UI should be harmless. Only the marker is removed, no data is lost. However this requires working disk space to merge disk fragments, and would have been the cause of the originally reported error.
If "remove" meant deleting the file using the host OS then the VM would not start. Does not match what was described so can't be this.
If "remove" means "revert" then the VM has been reset to the moment the selected snapshot marker was created. Any data created since that moment is lost, except of course from that backup which you sensibly made when problems first started appearing.
Re: Unable to merge storage.Not enough free storage.
Thus, recovery is impossible.socratis wrote:Did you just delete a snapshot and now you want to recover it?
Forget it. Bye, bye snapshot...
Re: Unable to merge storage.Not enough free storage.
I mean is "revert".mpack wrote:I'm confused - what does it mean to "remove" a snapshot? AFAIK (given that I never use snapshots) none of the snapshot operations is called "Remove".
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If "remove" means "revert" then the VM has been reset to the moment the selected snapshot marker was created. Any data created since that moment is lost, except of course from that backup which you sensibly made when problems first started appearing.