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On Wednesday 24 July 2002 00:32, you wrote: du has not been helpful. nor has find all todays files and order by size. It is hiding.
Anyway, what are the observed symptoms that lead you to this conclusion? Sounds improbable to me, although a corrupted filesystem can lead to things that seem highly improbable. Have you fsckd it?
akm@xxxxxxx:~ > df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 36G 35G 133M 100% / /dev/hda1 23M 5.4M 16M 25% /boot /dev/hdb1 19G 11G 8.1G 57% /2 shmfs 356M 0 356M 0% /dev/shm //jupiter/vpop3 4.0G 3.9G 118M 98% /mnt/mail /dev/hdc 647M 647M 0 100% /media/cdrom Not fsckd because if possible I want to keep the system up, fix it, and then set up something to observe it before it gets to critical size again and deal with it.
Again, filesystem damage springs to mind, but another observation is that if you delete a file that something has open, you delete the filesystem reference, but the OS can't reclaim its space until the application closes it. In the case of ~/.Xsession-errors, dropping to the commandline and deleting it from there would fix that particular problem.
I expected it to... -- From one of the Linux desktops of Dr Adrian Midgley http://www.defoam.net/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.