Thanks Shawn and Bob.  That will keep me busy a while tracking down 
where the data goes.

Derek

On 06/09/2014 10:59 AM, Bob Elzer wrote:
>
> df just gives you the space used on the disk volumes.
>
> Try using this command
>
> du  -sh   .*   *
>
> It will tell you the space used by each directory and file in the 
> current directory and the total of the parent directory.
>
> Running it before and after should pinpoint any directories that are 
> changing size
>
> On May 30, 2014 9:37 PM, "Derek Trotter" <expat.arizonan@gmail.com 
> <mailto:expat.arizonan@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I've been using Pan 0.139 for a few days and I noticed something.
>     While it's downloading headers, none of the files in my .pan2
>     directory increase in size, nor are any new files added.  When Pan
>     is done downloading headers, it writes them to a file in the
>     .pan2/groups directory.  However it's also writing something to my
>     home directory before anything turns up in .pan2/groups.  I run df
>     in my home directory (My home directory gets an entire 2TB disk.)
>     and every minute or two it shows the free space decreasing.  This
>     happens when I have no web browsers, email clients or any other
>     program running except for Pan.  I'm curious where Pan puts this
>     data before it's written to a file in .pan2/groups.  Any ideas?
>
>     Here's what I've seen.
>
>     delboy@ladmo:~/pan2$ df /home/delboy
>     Filesystem      1K-blocks       Used Available Use% Mounted on
>     /dev/sdd2      1922728752 1730809480 191902888  91% /home/delboy
>     delboy@ladmo:~/pan2$ df /home/delboy
>     Filesystem      1K-blocks       Used Available Use% Mounted on
>     /dev/sdd2      1922728752 1730809800 191902568  91% /home/delboy
>
>     Thanks
>
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