Mark Weaver wrote:
>
> Thanks Ron...and you're right - I was very happy to learn that about
> /proc, however, my root partition is still at 99% and I can't find out
> why. This is one of those mysteries about Linux that I've yet to find an
> solution to.
FWIW, if you have been using gimp 1.1. it has a curious fault. The
settings allow you to specify a work area for gimp which by default
is in /home/<user>/.
Under some unknown situation gimp 1.1 can get into a loop which
consumes this work space rapidly over time eventually filling it up
and crashing yuour system.
However, if you interrupt it before this point you will find a large
quantity of space used in /home/<user>/ but WITHOUT any file
directory entries. This space allocation will survive rebooting and
of course cannot be deleted. I suspect gimp is using this work space
in a raw disk access mode for speed.
The solution that worked for me was to delete /home/<user>/ entirely
and replace it with my last backup of that directory.
A nice gotcha, isn't it?
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