Sorry - did it again - forgot to set my correct email identity for the list so I'm sending it again. Apologies for any duplication.

I wanted to try the K3b DVD Ripping/Encoding option.

The 'Help' says:

"First step is to choose the title/movie you want to rip. For this click on the drive icon of your DVD-Drive. You will now see a list that shows the content of the DVD with all movie sequence. The longest movie sequence (usually the main movie) is automatically selected. Right click on the title and choose copy."

So I did that. Then it says:

"In the following dialog enter the destination directory in the first line. The second and third will be filled out automatically. Don't change these paths."

There wasn't a following dialogue and it immediately started filling my Home partition which I didn't want so I killed K3b. It still went on writing to the Home partition until it was full.

I determined to delete whatever file it had written to the partition except that there wasn't one. Even KDirStat wouldn't acknowledge that the partition was full, saying that it was 66% used, and didn't show any large files - hidden or otherewise. 'df' and 'di' showed the partition as 100% used.

In the end the only way I managed to cure it was to reboot when things went back to normal.

Does anyone have any idea where the space went - how can it be used but not show anything using it?

Regards to all

Barry Samuels http://www.beenthere-donethat.org.uk The Unofficial Guide to Great Britain