On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 09:04 -0500, Gordon R. Keehn wrote: > Hi, Anyone > Before we left for the Christmas holiday, I powered down my FC4 box. > (My wife is paranoid that way.) KDiskFree showed my root partition a > bit over 50% full. Within hours of starting it up again a few days ago, > it was pushing 100%, and I haven't been able to find the culprit. The > file system is reiserfs (I installed FC4 over an old SuSE distro), if > that makes a difference. Has anyone run into this? Is there a tool I > can use to report the space occupied by each folder, to try to identify > the cause? I've deleted some old stuff from /var and /tmp, but that > only recovered about 350 mB; I'm still missing some 5 gig. You might want to try booting off the rescue CD, and running fsck.reiserfs on the partition, just to make sure that it isn't in a weird state. I have had funny things like that happen myself, where it would just start gobbling space up, and I fixed it by repairing the filesystem. YMMV. Cheers! Steve
