disk space incorrect

burnt_toast · 09-16-2003, 08:15 PM

Can anyone tell me what's up with this? The other day, I booted my system, and X wouldn't start, citing that it couldn't find the default font. I did some research and found that this can be attributed to low disk space. I did a "df -h" and it says all 31gb of my root partition is being used!

I got a dir by dir allocation report and after adding it all up, I have at most 5gb used on my root partition. I then proceded to do a fsck, and it came back clean.

Any ideas? Anyone?

burnt_toast · 09-16-2003, 08:27 PM

Well, I actually just found out what the problem was...not sure I understand what caused it, though.

I had a 27GB file in my home directory called .xsession-errors

What in the world could cause a log file to grow that much out of proportion?

jailbait · 09-16-2003, 08:33 PM

"What in the world could cause a log file to grow that much out of proportion?"

Probably you are getting the same large set of error messages every time that you log into or out of X. The messages keep getting appended to the end of .xsession-errors.

You could fix X so you don't get the messages or you could delete and reallocate .xsession-errors as part of boot or shutdown.