Hi, in my last post, harddrive free space problem. I said my harddrive was unkownly to me losing a 1mb of freespace every few minutes. I had to go to school and when I got home to work on my problem some more, all I was doing is using tail -f on files and checking there size in a file manager. All of a sudden, it says I am back to my 1.4gig, which is what I am supposed to have. I didn't do anything that I know of, just kept on checking file sizes. What the heck happened to my computer. The files in /var/log where the ones growing(syslog, messages, and kernal/warnings). I have never had this happen to me before. Basically, what do you think could of made that happend? I have no idea.

LOL, probably something to do with the mandrake services that load at boot time (cron etc).

Firstly. The log files are there for a reason. If they are growing, it means that something is being logged there, and that something is a problem that should be fixed. Secondly, logfiles are periodically gzipped to save space. Even if you have a huge logfile, if it is the same message repeating it will compress to essentially nothing. Hence all the space you have. You really have to look at the compressed logfiles (they will be something like syslog.1.gz) with zless and see what message is being repeated over and over again. Post here (in a new thread though!) if you need/want some help with fixing it.