Well it took only 3 days for my .xsession-errors file to grow back to 8.3GB and fill my partition again, and (as tangible evidence that I'm slowly learning) have found the errors to be coming from a [EMAIL PROTECTED] application I was trying to run. It had not been able to download a work unit properly, and the errors being written to the file were the lines the programme puts in a terminal for a user to log in or create a new account. So I'll wait and see what happens when this work unit finishes and will be better able to understand how the programme works under linux. In the mean time, I'm not expecting xsession-errors to grow because of seti.
The question: I deleted the .xsession-errors file in konqueror - not the "move to trash" option, but the "delete" option. the machine continued to think it had zero available space on that partition until I restarted. (that is based on my continued inability to send an email or write any file to my home folder until after the restart). why is that? or better question, is there a command i can run to make the computer realise that there's a whole lot of free space there?
Cheers, Roger
