Just as a test we recently backed up my son's home directory from his macbook to venti.
Some random tool had dropped a symlink somewhere down in his directory that pointed to /. Result was that all 60G went to venti. Since that time, the machine has not been happy. Looking at it, the hard disk is constantly pegged. I have no idea if the two events are related, but this is a machine that had been up for 4 months; I had to reboot it just 2 days ago as it froze on me. What's a reasonable way to find out what activity is eating the drive? I have to admit I'm not sure where to go with this. ron
