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Hello, i have a question;

So today i installed virtual box WITH Ubuntu on it, the ubuntu gave alot of errors so i removed it, when i check my harddisk of my pc it says 12GB/862GB

This used to be 12GB/999GB, does a installation eat the max capacity?

Thanks!

-Luc

Please explain what 12GB/862GB and 12GB/999GB mean?

The virtual disk for the guest can and usually does consume several dozens of GB on the host disk. If you remove the guest from the Virtualbox window but don't delete the files, the guest files including the virtual disk will still be on your host disk. You can use the Virtualbox Media manager (in the File menu) to find the virtual disk and delete it.

The virtual disk size is picked when you first make it and will grow up to but not over that size as the guest is used. If you pick a virtual disk size that is as large or larger than the available space on your host disk, you will eventually consume your entire host disk.

What i mean with 12GB/862GB and 12GB/999GB,

12GB is the current free space i have and 999GB WAS the max amount of storage on my disk,

But now its just 862GB max storage...

So you had a physical disk with 999GB total space, and previous to installing Virtualbox you had filled it up so that you had 12GB empty space left. Then you installed Virtualbox and a Ubuntu guest, then deleted VB and the guest, and now your physical disk has a total of 862GB total space with the same 12GB of empty space left?

The last part is correct after deleting the VB and the guest

so enlighten me on the first part?

It was indeed 999Gb but it had already 12 gb left haha

Hmm, sounds like the way I interpreted it.

So the only way one can take a disk with 999GB and make it look like it is 862GB is with a partition manager. Virtualbox does not come with a partition manager and does not change the partitions on the host disk.

To remove 137GB of usable capacity from a disk when it had only 12GB of available space on it requires a partition manager with capabilities that don't exist yet, to my knowledge. No one has a partition manager that can make a disk smaller than the data it is holding without destroying the data.

In my opinion, either the drive's original empty space was rather more than 12GB (Like 149GB) or something else besides Virtualbox was used on the disk to create the situation you see. Virtualbox does not change the host disk in the way you describe.