My "/tmp" directory filled up 64GB virtually overnight!

[Gordon Schulz]

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 08:33, B <tptagth at yahoo.com> wrote:

> And within "/tmp/kde-brian" is the 64GB.  It had the following listing:
> :/tmp/kde-brian$ ls -la
> total 66266108
> drwx------  2 brian brian        4096 2008-07-23 10:26 .
> drwxrwxrwt 16 root  root         4096 2008-07-23 10:30 ..
> -rw-------  1 brian brian           0 2008-07-22 19:30 d3lphin0foFDb.tmp
> -rw-r--r--  1 brian brian 16947544064 2008-07-22 20:06 d3lphin0foFDb.tmp.part
[...]
> For me this is an interesting enough Linux episode to question it.  
> I would like to know if anyone has a suggestion on what I can do to discover why 
> this directory blossomed into 64GB virtually overnight.
Can't really tell why it did that - those leftover temporary files are
from dolphin, seems like it never bothered to delete them. d3lphin indicates 
it (dolphin Kde3 Port = d3lphin). Did it crash or something?
-- 
Gordon.