Re: Easy way to regain the 7 GB
This is slightly different though, Windows also uses a page file, and while I don't regularly (aha ahahah ahahahah) install it, ISTR last time I did it sets it up automatically meaning that chunk of space is also taken. This is about reserved space for temporary files, a bit more akin to the default 5% reserved for root on a linux filesystem or /tmp on ramfs (but not exactly the same as either, the true linux equivalent would be creating /tmp as a separate filesystem on disc, optionally in a loopback device if you want to be able to resize dynamically).