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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE desktop experience
From:       "Curtis M. Brune" <curtisb () hq ! workspot ! com>
Date:       2000-05-01 2:25:26
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On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 08:55:27AM +0100, Mark Zealey wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Dawit A wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Curtis M. Brune wrote:
> > > 
> > > Every once in awhile a user's KDE session creates a HUGE file called
> > > ~/.share/dev/zero in the user's home directory.  As far as I can tell the
> > > size of the file is only limited by the maximum file size under linux,
> > > about 2.5GB .  Also the file appears to contain nothing but zeroes.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know about this file?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> > > We are running version 1.1.2 of KDE if that helps.
> > 
> > Hmmm... AFAIK unless it is a non-kde application or a non-basic KDE application,
> > no app I know of creates such a large file.  In fact with the exception of .kderc, all of
> > the config files for most of KDE apps are under ~/.kde and not ~/.share. 


You are correct.  The file acutally lives in ~/.kde/share/dev/zero -- I
miss typed in my earlier email.  My bad.  Any other ideal?

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