On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 09:47:09PM +0100, Penguin Lover Uwe Thiem squawked: > Hi folks, > > while saving an edited MPEG2 file, avidemux ate tens of GB under /home. I > can't find that/those temporary files. Anybody in the know where it stores > them? It definitely isn't under /tmp or /var/tmp. It's under /home and > presumebly under my home directory but "find . -size +1G -print" in my home > directory didn't reveal anything.
Presumeably it could be a bunch of small files, rather than 1 file bigger than 1 gigabyte (as an aside, why is it for my version of find, +1G is not a valid size? The only units that it admits [according to the man page] are b[lock], c[haracter=byte], w[ord], and k[ilo]]), which might explain why your find command doesn't see it. Have you looked at the output of du --max-depth 1 | sort -g It should show you which are your abnormally large directories... HTH, W -- Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand, "lollipop" is the longest word typed with your right hand; given that you don't type in Dvorak. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 1 day, 2 min -- [email protected] mailing list
