I'm having a weird problem. Every once in a while my guest creates files with a false size. By that I mean that - for example - a file which should be 700M becomes 3G. The files grow by having appended the null character when I look at them. But they don't seem to really have the full size that is displayed (i.e. they dont actually occupy the additional diskspace).
The problem occurs with bit torrent downloads as they are written to disk (into a shared folder on the host). And usually this happens after the guest has been running for a while, but I that is just a gut feeling.
My setup looks like this:
The guest has a small virtual disk and runs on Ubuntu 7.10. It writes bit torrent downloads into a shared folder on the host, because there is no space for downloads in the guest (I'm only mentioning this so that you get a picture on what I am actually doing).
The host system has an ext3 file system and runs on Ubuntu 7.10 as well.
The Virtualbox Version is 1.6.4, but the problem has been existing since at least the previous version.
The fstab line that mounts the shared folder looks like this
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fls /media/files vboxsf rw,uid=user 0 0
I am guessing that the host runs out of max. open files (or something like that), even though the guest only has a handful of files opened (?).
So... does anyone know a cure these two problems ? Or does anyone know how I can fix the incorrectly labeled files (preferably without a reboot of the host) ?
Thanks.