Huge Log File

[Tony Wu]

Hi,

I have an iMac with Windows XP running on Parallels. Everything works fine, except that it started to report that it was out of disk space yesterday. I did a little bit of looking around, and found a 60GB log file under C:\WINDOWS\Logs\parallels. Anyone knows what's going on, and how to resolve this?

Thanks.

 

[Fredv]

my logfile is only a few kB.
so, rename it and see what happens.
probably nothing.
if so, delete this huge logfile.

 

[Tony Wu]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. I rebooted the Windows a couple of time and the log file went back to 4KB. What is that log file? Is it an activity/access log from Parallels? I didn't open it up and take a look at it because opening a 56GB file in Wordpad didn't seem like a good idea.

The Windows XP in this case has never been rebooted since it was built (probably 7 or 8 months). Does that mean Windows running in Parallels has to be rebooted once in a while? I don't remember ever seeing this anywhere in their documentation.

Thanks.

 

[Fredv]

well now, never been rebooted since being installed.
so you never knew if it would be able to reboot succesfully.
I would build a vm-machine, update it, reboot it, make a copy, in other words play around, before actually using it.

 

[Outtoplay]

Funny... I created a 24 gig partition a few days ago with a fresh install of Parallels/Win7. All was terrific, then suddenly today, same thing, getting an out of disc space warning, and I have only Zbrush installed on my Bootcamp/VM partition.

Win is updating at the moment but I will look for that log file that you mentioned and report back.

Update: The log file is a few k, so that's not the problem. This is so weird. Why would the bootcamp partition fill up on it's own? I may nuke the bootcamp partition and redo it since I have nothing of note on it, but I'd love to figure out what happened so I don't have this issue in 2 days again.


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