On Sun, 07 Jan 2007 14:17:58 +0000, The Natural Philosopher scribed:

>> Tried that, but still can not find where the 2+GB has gone now, cannot
>> find a file.
>
> Try running fsck on the unmounted home partition.
>
> You may have lost the file entry, but still have the inodes there.
>
> This is dead easy to do if you delete a file that's open by another program
>
> The file is still there, it is just nameless.

I went into failsafe mode and executed the following:

umount /home
fsck /home

This told me that the file system was clean. When rebooted the 2+GB
was still reported as used.

I then looked up a bit more on the fsck command and re-ran the test,
but this time using fsck -f /home.

When rebooted, the 2+GB of file that was being "used" was reclaimed.
Now the drive space usage appears what I expect it to show.

I'd like to that EVERYONE that has contributed their time and patience
for a Linux newbie to this thread and helped me out with this
particular vexing issue. I have kept the information in my archives so
I learn from the experience.

Thanks again

Darius