Comment 21 for bug 127617

This problem is now affecting both my Sony laptop and my Acer netbook.

A week or more ago, I started having trouble with my laptop disk being full. Every time I deleted files it would free space for a few minutes and then I'd start getting errors when launching programs because the disk was full again. I've manually cleaned files and looked for processes, like backup routines that might consume disk space but no joy.

I am able to get to root window with network so have autoremoved, and cleaned, and removed, and --reinstalled, and upgraded and have ended up with a message saying "configuration defaults for GNOME Power Manager have not been installed correctly". I'm quite sure this is related to startup with 0 disk available and whatever process is gobbling up free disk as soon as I create it. My laptop has not been useable for several days now so I've been getting by with my netbook until now.

My netbook ha been running without the sound card and in low-graphics mode for a week or more until this morning when it warned me about the disk being full. I deleted image files and lots of others, and yes, emptied the trash but file manager status bar showed 20+GB free but the file manager continued to show 0 free. Now my netbook gives me the GNOME Power Manager error on startup.

I've taken all of the steps suggested with no improvement.

What could be consuming my disk space? I don't see log files, so what is it??