Uninstalled Virtual Box without deleting the VDI

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I created a VM using Virtual Box, but I gave it 25 GB, and I had 15 GB free. So I deleted it, and soon, uninstalled Virtual Box, but when I open my filesystem's properties, it is full, I mean to say about 80% of it is still in use, and the vdi file isn't anywhere. How do I free it up?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 25 '16 at 10:10

By default your VirtualBox files should be located in $HOME/VirtualBox VMs/ so if you navigate there you should easily see if there are any remaining .vdi files still in place.

If your files were in a non-default location try running the following in a Terminal window to find them:

find $HOME -iname *.vdi

And when you find the files you can manually delete them...

References:

10.1. Where VirtualBox stores its files

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 23 '19 at 17:59

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Uninstall VirtualBox:

sudo apt-get remove --purge virtualbox

Remove all settings:

sudo rm ~/.config/VirtualBox/ -Rf

edited Aug 23 '19 at 17:59

Eliah Kagan

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answered Aug 23 '19 at 17:55

Mir Rahed Uddin

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Uninstalled Virtual Box without deleting the VDI

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