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> 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
>
> --
> "I get my copy of the daily paper, look at the obituaries page, and if I’m
> not there, I carry on as usual."
>
> Patrick Moore
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org
> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
---------------------------------------------------
PLUG-discuss mailing list -
PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org
To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
(text/plain)