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Re: Where did my disk space go?



On Sat, Jul 10, 1999 at 01:53:51PM -0500, Alexander Kushnirenko wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I got a strange problem.  I was running gimp processing quite big image,  at
> some point I got impatient and killed the program.  To manipulate with image
> GIMP has quite big buffers allocated on hard drive and now all that space is
> gone.  Effectively "du" reports that my home area occupies 150 Mb of space,
> but if I sum up different files I can find only 20Mb of space.  So 130 Mb are
> assigned to something which I can not find.  Running e2fsck -f does not
> help.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thank you,
> Sasha.
> 
> ==============================================================================
> How does it look like:
> <kushnir> cd ~
> <kushnir> du -sk .
> 151081  .
> <kushnir> du -sk * | sort -nr | head
> 11447   charm
> 4774    speakerphone
> 1811    pascal
> 703     Mail
> 334     hehe
> 292     request.xcf
> 290     passport
> 96      request1.ps.gz
> 76      request.ps.save
> 76      request.ps
> 
> 
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Look at .xsession-errors
A friend had Enlightenment crash and it made a 750 MB .xsession-errors
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