Surely your hard drive is only doing what it wilt. Why complain then? On Monday 31 March 2008 07:14:54 charles f. zeitler wrote: > 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--