How to locate small file consumption creep

[Tuna]

Perhaps you have an app running that likes putting stuff in its 
respective folder in ~/.*?

For example, if Firefox were to fill it's cache in ~/.mozilla/. An 
unlikely cause, but do you get my idea?

What do you normally have running overnight?

Josef Lowder wrote:
> How can I locate what seems to be a small file consumption
> "creep" on my system.  In one 10-gig partition, I have about 1.1 gig
> of free space available, but I've noticed that some of this space
> seems to go away overnight when nothing is running.
> 
> For example, last night 'df' showed this:
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda2             9.9G  2.7G  6.7G  29% /
> /dev/hda1              76M  5.3M   67M   8% /boot
> /dev/hda3             9.9G  8.8G  1.1G  90% /home
> /dev/hda7             9.9G  7.3G  2.1G  78% /mnt/hda7
> 
> And this morning, 'df' showed this:
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda2             9.9G  2.7G  6.7G  29% /
> /dev/hda1              76M  5.3M   67M   8% /boot
> /dev/hda3             9.9G  9.0G  951M  91% /home
> /dev/hda7             9.9G  7.3G  2.1G  78% /mnt/hda7
> 
> So what could account for the loss of file space from
> 1.1G to 951M overnight with nothing running
> and how could I search my system to find an answer?
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