gorged harddrive

[Ed Greshko]

charles f. zeitler wrote:
> i've been pruning my "downloads" disk,
> rather drastically, and not making a dent.
> 
> today some more, less drastic but still
> hefty, same result.
> 
> revisited du- checked it twice - three
> times- yup, it reports one directory at
> 800+ gb- on a 400gb disk!
> 
> fsck (forced) failed to report any problems,
> there don't seem to be any symlinks,
> and the sub-direcory sizes are sane...
> 
> any ideas welcome, and appreciated.

Instead of telling people what you are seeing it would be better to show the 
actual commands and output.