an awful problem, disc space is disappearing

[Jeremy J Swarm]

On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 23:23 +0800, rpowersau at gmail.com wrote:
> Are your logs filling up from some wayward application?
> 
> On 9/13/06, Gabriel M Dragffy <dragffy at yandex.ru> wrote:
> > This morning my root partition was 6gb large and had 49% free space.
> > This evening I was trying to install the game supertux and found there
> > was no disc space. I'm using a simple desktop installation. I have
> > apache and proftp installed and running but a firewall blocks remote
> > connections to them. Something just ate about 3gb in one day and I
> > didn't do anything to warrant that. Furthermore only yesterday I had the
> > same problem but I put it down to a power failure, I ended up deleting
> > all my LVs, my PV, VG and the partition and restoring.  How do I find
> > out where my 3GB went? And then find what took it and why?
> >
> >
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> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Russ
> 
audacity once flooded my root partition with temp files. i had left it
running for a long time while recording....