Ubuntu took up 20GB of HDD on my Mac ...how can I gain that back?

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Ubuntu took up 20GB of HDD on my Mac ...how can I gain that back?

Hey guys!!

I installed Ubuntu (Latest version off the site) using VMWare Fusion and I want to uninstall it. I went to the partition and the only OS there is my OS X, but then again the 20GB space that I made Ubuntu use up is still missing. So can someone give me a firm detail step by step way to complete remove Ubuntu and gain my HDD space back?

The thing is I had an error when trying to boot into Ubuntu when I started up VMWare Fusion because I accidentally deleted a file that it needed from documents, but I don't even remember what file that was.

I did remove the OS from the left side off Fusion where I would just load it up, but nothing asked me to move to trash. I'm assuming that would get rid of it? Now that the OS isn't there, I did a restart to see if my 20GB space that it took up was back, but it's still missing.

I went to Fusion and no Ubuntu to load up, but the 20GB is still used up.

Where is this Ubuntu OS or folder located so I could just get rid of it?

Thanks!

MacBook Pro 13.3" (Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.6.6)

Posted on Feb 12, 2011 11:35 AM

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Answer 1

rccharles

Level 6

13,037 points

Feb 13, 2011 10:23 AM in response to HeavyComponent

HeavyComponent wrote:
Hey guys!!

I installed Ubuntu (Latest version off the site) using VMWare Fusion and I want to uninstall it. I went to the partition and the only OS there is my OS X, but then again the 20GB space that I made Ubuntu use up is still missing. So can someone give me a firm detail step by step way to complete remove Ubuntu and gain my HDD space back?

I'm not certain if you installed it in a separate partition or in a Mac OS X file.

*separate partition*
List the partitions & look for a twenty gig partition. I have Ubuntu installed on partition 11. The list will not look like what you see in Disk Utility. There are hidden partition Disk Utility doesn't display.
Macintosh-HD -> Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal
The sudo command will ask for your administration password. No characters will appear when typing your password. Press return when done typing.
mac $ sudo pdisk -l Password: Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/rdisk0' #: type name length base ( size ) 1: Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 2: Apple_Driver43*Macintosh 56 @ 64 3: Apple_Driver43*Macintosh 56 @ 120 4: Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh 56 @ 176 5: Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh 56 @ 232 6: Apple_FWDriver Macintosh 512 @ 288 7: Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh 512 @ 800 8: Apple_Patches Patch Partition 512 @ 1312 9: Apple_Bootstrap untitled 1954 @ 149319048 10: Apple_HFS Apple_HFS_Untitled_1 2254440 @ 263968 ( 1.1G) 11: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled 6617188 @ 149321002 ( 3.2G) 12: Apple_HFS Apple_HFS_Untitled_2 146538496 @ 2780552 ( 69.9G) 13: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 363298 @ 155938190 (177.4M) 14: Apple_Free Extra 262144 @ 1824 (128.0M) 15: Apple_Free Extra 262144 @ 2518408 (128.0M) Device block size=512, Number of Blocks=156301488 (74.5G) DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0 Drivers- 1: 23 @ 64, type=0x1 2: 36 @ 120, type=0xffff 3: 21 @ 176, type=0x701 4: 34 @ 232, type=0xf8ff pdisk: No valid block 1 on '/dev/rdisk1' mac $

*via a file*
Look at your large files via OmniDiskSweeper. The file may not be 20 gig since it might be compressed in some manor.

Run
OmniDiskSweeper
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This will give you a list of files and folders sorted by size. Go after things you know that are big.

Robert

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Answer 2

Bill Scott

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11,465 points

Feb 13, 2011 10:56 AM in response to HeavyComponent

VMwere fusion installs the guest operating system on a virtual disk image. If you delete the disk image directly via the Finder or command-line, you will get your space back.

I keep mine in a non-canonical location (i.e., external hard drive, to avoid just this problem), but if you start up VMware, it should tell you in the preferences where it is installed. Otherwise, just look in ~/Library somewhere.

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Answer 3

Feb 13, 2011 1:24 PM in response to HeavyComponent

Ok guys it looks like Ubuntu didn't really take up any space off my Mac. The software WhatSize clearly showed me everything that with a file size on it and I'm good. There wasn't any files for Ubuntu on my Mac. I guess I was just a little confused because I was reading the "home" and "HD" separately when I shouldn't have.

Thanks guys!

Message was edited by: HeavyComponent

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Answer 4

Feb 20, 2011 1:57 PM in response to HeavyComponent

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2752051&tstart=0

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