i've been pruning my "downloads" disk, rather drastically, and not making a dent. today some more, less drastic but still hefty, same result. revisited du- checked it twice - three times- yup, it reports one directory at 800+ gb- on a 400gb disk! fsck (forced) failed to report any problems, there don't seem to be any symlinks, and the sub-direcory sizes are sane... any ideas welcome, and appreciated. charles zeitler : Do What Thou Wilt : : Shall Be : : The Whole of The Law : --Aleister Crowley--