\_ Yes, I knew rebooting would do that. I just thought I would throw \_ that in for clarity. \_ \_ No, du does not report the correct size. And I thought there may have been \_ anothrer file layting around, but I do not see any indication \_ that it exists. man find; try something clever along the lines of find /home -size +4096k -print or something else that makes sense.... David