Hello,
Observed today, that my machine had utilized ~ 7G of hard drive space
(since the last time I saw it, ~ week ago)! The real killers were:
# du -hcs /var/log/* | grep -E '^[0-9]*.[0-9]*G'
2.6G/var/log/kern.log.0
2.6G/var/log/messages.0
2.6G/var/log/syslog.0
On inspection each
Assuming it's some sort of storage device you're using -
I'd say, *before* unplugging the USB device, you need to un-mount it with
the 'umount' command
(and wait until the linux prompt comes up on the command line again, to make
sure it's finished writing everything to the USB device, *bef