Re: .xsession-errors occupying 4.7Gb

From: Ron Johnson (ron.l.johnson_at_cox.net)
Date: 01/29/05

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Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 10:02:22 -0600

    On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 16:21 +0100, Olle Eriksson wrote:
    > Hi
    >
    > I just thought I'd mention this here for those who are not aware of it.
    >
    > My disk usage has seemed to grown the last year or so and I havn't been
    > able to understand what it is that takes so much space. Today I was
    > playing around with 'du' and couldn't get the numbers to add up. Then I
    > saw that the file ~/.xsessions-errors had grown to a huge size, about 4.7
    > Gigabytes. When I finally got rid of it I freed about half the size of my
    > root partition. :-)
    >
    > Because this file is used by countless X applications it can't be deleted
    > properly. What seems to work is this:
    >
    > cat /dev/null > ~/.xsession-errors
    >
    > Now I have this in a cron script run every night.
    >
    > So if you are having problems with disk space, check out this file.

    Before blindly overwriting it, did you look into it to see why
    it is sooooooooo big?

    dir .xsession-errors
    -rw------- 1 me me 1611951 2004-08-21 17:24 .xsession-errors 

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