On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 04:57 +0100, Olle Eriksson wrote: > On Saturday 29 January 2005 17.02, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 16:21 +0100, Olle Eriksson wrote: > > > My disk usage has seemed to grown the last year or so and I havn't > > > been able to understand what it is that takes so much space. Today I > > > was playing around with 'du' and couldn't get the numbers to add up. > > > Then I saw that the file ~/.xsessions-errors had grown to a huge > > > size, about 4.7 Gigabytes. When I finally got rid of it I freed about > > > half the size of my root partition. :-) > > > > Before blindly overwriting it, did you look into it to see why > > it is sooooooooo big? > > Well.. it seems that whenever I start an application on the command line I > get a few error messages before it starts, so I just figured that these > are also written into .xsession-errors which then grows with time. But > now that you mentioned it I took a closer look in the file, and it looks > like mplayer is basically "printing" all the played movie clips in it. > I'm going to take a closer look at that. That's odd. Where do you get mplayer from? The package from nerim doesn't do that. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. I wonder how many homeless people are victims of childhood sexual abuse.
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