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So, I have been getting low disk warnings. I set the box up for 8gb and I download torrents. I set it up small so I could download to another drive that has alot of space. I mount a shared folder on the big drive and it goes to the shared folder. Im new to all this and Linux. the shared folder name is share because the commands someone showed me was to "mkdir mnt/share" and combine the sf_downloads to it. For some reason I am thinking im accually putting the new files on my box's 8gb because of this. Is there a way to put share sf_downloads cause I can't access it even when this is mounted, but I can see contents through the /mnt/share directory. Any help would be awesome. i'd really like to keep the 8gb for the OS and put ALL files on the shared folder on the other drive that win7 uses.

Thanks in advance.

I suspect that your browser may be downloading files to your system drive, then copying to the selected download folder in a second stage. Internet Explorer on Windows does that too, and it is very annoying. Also check your temporary internet files folder, make sure it isn't cacheing all your big downloads.

Thanks for the idea, I made a new virtualbox with plenty of room.