On 8/15/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de > wrote:

On Tuesday 15 August 2006 16:51, Peter Davoust wrote:
> Ok, so I had a 5 gig disk image I was using for a guest OS. I deleted it
> and it brought be down to about 93% usage, and gave me back KDE. Then I did
> a series of du -s /* etc, which took me to a directory I created for a Java
> application I'm writing. Somehow, a file called fool was created, and it
> was enourmous. I deleted it and it brought me down to 22% usage. Is that
> insane or what? I guess the file was appropriately named.....
>

a long time ago, gimp created a temp file with a size of 4gb.. which was
pretty deadly on a 8gb partition with 4gb free ;)

sometimes temp files are running completly mad.. a check once in a while is
not a bad thing.
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