I did. (I'm the only user). But that's where I can't find where the space went. I even 
ran a
find . -type f -ls
and summed up the numbers in perl. Still only get 6 Gbytes of files on a full 36 Gbyte 
disk...

On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 19:04:53 -0800
"Net Llama!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Well, i'd assume that it filled up the diskspace of the user $HOME that 
> was running it.  So, why not run 'du -m' on that user's $HOME?
> 
> On 11/26/02 18:56, Alan Jackson wrote:
> > I'm at my wit's end. A runaway vim process filled up my disk, and I can't
> > figure out *where*. I had cleared space a few days ago, and then it filled up
> > again, when I found and killed the gvim zombie. I get quite different
> > answers from different tools as well :
> > 
> > df tells me I've used 36 Gbytes, that is, the whole disk.
> > Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/hdb1             38464340  36316120    194316 100% /home
> > 
> > But when I try to find where it has gone with du,
> > 
> > du -k /home yields :
> > 
> >  5708312    .
> > 
> >  total kb, or 6 Gb. Where is the other 30?
> > 
> > 
> 
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