Dean, Nick, Tom, and all, This is day three with this mystery still loose upon this poor machine and I have yet to be able to find anything. This morning I "think" I managed to narrow things down a bit and taking the suggestions given from the list used the searches provided. It would appear from the readings I'm getting back from "du" and "df" that the file I'm looking for is roughly 187MB in size however I'm unable to find this file. I've attached a txt file to this message which contains the results of what these two programs report the usage as. As you all suggested I dropped down to runlevel 1 and ran the suggested diagnostics. Everything came back with the filesystem being in perfect health. According to reiserfsck there doesn't appear to be anything wrong with the system. any ideas? Mark
5.5M /bin 386k /dev 12M /etc 27M /lib 2.5k /mnt 512 /opt 16k /tmp 2.7M /boot 5.1M /sbin 3.6M /root 512 /.mozilla 57M / 57M total Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 248M 244M 3.6M 99% / /dev/hdb6 512M 115M 397M 22% /home /dev/hda6 1.6G 1.1G 557M 66% /usr /dev/hdb5 1.5G 195M 1.3G 13% /var
