Frank McCormick<debianlist@videotron.ca> writes:
> Spent a few hours watching online video tonight (the Discovery
> website) and discovered afterwards that I had lost about 7 GIGS of
> diskspace!! I assume it was because of all that video watching (in
> Google-Chrome) but now I can't find out where it's gone ? I only
> have 14 gigs on this partition..and I've managed to free up about a
> gig..but I have to find the other 6 or 7 gigs. I deleted the google
> cache..and config files...looked in /tmp and a few other places but I
> am stumped.
While you may have removed the /filenames/, the files may still
persist, if opened by a process.
Personally, I'd close all the unnecessary applications and all
the X sessions, log in at the text VT (usually, Ctrl-Alt-F2 or
Alt-F2 switch to one), and carefully examine the list of my
running processes with $ ps x. If there's anything that looks
like it has entered an infinite loop, or otherwise suspicious,
I'd kill it with $ kill (and if it doesn't respond, with
$ kill -9.)