On 27 July 2006 22:02, Willie Wong wrote: > On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 09:47:09PM +0100, Penguin Lover Uwe Thiem squawked: > > Hi folks, > > > > while saving an edited MPEG2 file, avidemux ate tens of GB under /home. I > > can't find that/those temporary files. Anybody in the know where it > > stores them? It definitely isn't under /tmp or /var/tmp. It's under /home > > and presumebly under my home directory but "find . -size +1G -print" in > > my home directory didn't reveal anything. > > Presumeably it could be a bunch of small files, rather than 1 file > bigger than 1 gigabyte (as an aside, why is it for my version of find, > +1G is not a valid size? The only units that it admits [according to > the man page] are b[lock], c[haracter=byte], w[ord], and k[ilo]]), > which might explain why your find command doesn't see it.
>From "man find": -size n[cwbkMG] File uses n units of space. The following suffixes can be used: `b' for 512-byte blocks (this is the default if no suffix is used) `c' for bytes `w' for two-byte words `k' for Kilobytes (units of 1024 bytes) `M' for Megabytes (units of 1048576 bytes) `G' for Gigabytes (units of 1073741824 bytes) Uwe -- Mark Twain: I rather decline two drinks than a German adjective. http://www.SysEx.com.na -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list