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On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Adrian Midgley wrote:
Something seems to be soaking up disk space in tens of gbytes, possibly ~/.Xsession-errors
Some of us still have a 2Gb hard limit on filesize:-) 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?
However it seems to be too large to measure, and then the space not be released after deleting 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. -- Nick Kew -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.