logical volume exists after uninstalling virtualbox

[fedvasu]

Hi guys ,

I (again) ran into trouble since two months i was trying out fedora lovelock "nightly build" in a virtualbox my host is Ubuntu 11.04 (previously 10.10 i upgraded yesterday) (had worked fine .. just was slow because i alloted only 512 MB ram) ... now i uninstalled virtualbox and deleted .virtualbox in home folder, but i couldn't recover my 8 GB space when i installed i made virtual disk fixed storage (my mistake i guess!! ) ) i don't know much about it either .. just wanted to try out fedora 15 so experimented it using virtuallbox ...

so guys , please help me recover my 8 GB .. please i'm running out of disk space (don't have bucks to purchase external hard disk .. otherwise i wouldn't have cared .. also don't have time to do a reinstallation of ubuntu/some other os (may be fedora) on my laptop ...

i just got 24 GB left .. i intend to store a few more movies and songs .. i would run out of disk space fairly quickly ... 8GB would be buffer if i get it back ...

regards ...

[scott32746]

Hello,

If you deleted the FS if something is writing to it, you may need to boot to get the space back.
More detail on the setup would be good

[fedvasu]

hi scott,

what more details you need?

my host system is ubuntu 11.04 and my guest os (os in vbox) was fedora 15 "nightly build" KDE
i booted into my virtual disk using iso image of fedora after some time i uninstalled vbox and deleted ".virtualbox" hidden folder ... (i think it contained .vdisk or something like that of my virtual disk)

i couldn't get my 8GB virtual space back ...

boot from what ? virtualbox new installation? .. please be more specific and step by step ... i'm a newbie to vbox so pardon me if i'm not clear and specific but do ask what is required...

regards ....

[scott32746]

You can try a find on vdi files

# find /export -name "*.vdi" -exec ls {} \;