[vox-tech] Mysteriously Expanding Home Directory

[Henry House]

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On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 11:59:05PM -0700, Richard Crawford wrote:
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> Reluctantly I rebooted the computer, just on a whim.  The bootup process
> noted some corrupted files and I had to run fsck / as root to fix the
> broken files.  When the system was up and running again, I found that I
> had to reconfigure Evolution for some reason, as if it had lost my user
> information.  All of my mailboxes and filters as well as old e-mails and
> contact and calendar information were in place still, fortunately.  I
> also ran df -h again and saw that /home is back down to 44%.

A possibility is that some process is madly stuffing data into a temporary
file that has been unlinked but keot open (and consequently not freed). This
would explain why the space reappeared after a rebootm since files with no
hard links are freed when the file descriptor closes. Alas, I don't know how
to detect this condition, though I expect the answer lies somewhere in /pro=
c.

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