Re: /home partition filling immediately after recent sid upgrade

[songbird <songbird@anthive.com>]

Mitchell Laks wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently upgraded a system that uses sid and the /home partition filled.
>
> I then adjusted tune2fs -m 3 /dev/md1 to give myself  20 G of space.
> Did nothing and next day already filled /home 100% again.
> Same thing happened when i did  -m2.
>
> Ok how to find the culprit ?
>
> A long long time ago, this happened when my .xsession-error file grew
> without bounds.
> Does not seem to be this file.
>
> Any one else seen this. How to find the monster space eater.
>
> And please no snarky "don't use sid" remarks.
> It is fun to play with the latest software.
>
> tried  du -sh on /home/username /* etc.
> ls -ltr tail
> Thanks

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