Pan question

[Derek Trotter]

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 at ladmo:~/pan2$ df /home/delboy
Filesystem      1K-blocks       Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdd2      1922728752 1730809480 191902888  91% /home/delboy
delboy at 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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