First of all, please forgive mu "laziness", I only did a check in Google to see how to *uninstall* java (thinking *that* was the culprit, or even thinking I had somehow lost my swap partition (I can't really tell...). However, I am unable to keep the machine running long enough (without running out of space), that I can even scan the list achives. The version of kmail here is 1.5 (I generally have that tkseti, and licq loaded at bootup of the Ximian desktop. Now, just running Kdiskfree (under KDE) and kmail, and my free spacke is already dropping from 13.5 Gb to 10.5 ... ir just dropped to 10.1 Gb. I only have a terminal window opened, NOTHING else, not tkseti, not licq, not even limewire, and while typing just this *one* message, and I now see my free space has dropped to 9.3Gb. KDiskFree shows the following devices: /dev/cdrom (/mnt/cdrom, /dev/cdrom1 (mnt/cdrom1), /dev/hda1 (/boot), /dev/hda2 (/), and /dev/hdb /mnt/ls120.0. I don't see a swap space listed in KDiskFree. Have I somehow managed to *delete* my swap partition? (System memory: 512Mb). Right now free space is 7.7Gb and dropping... I'll have to shoot off this email to the list before I run out of space, even though I would like to provide some further detail... (I -- http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_4504.html "You only live once, so let's make life EASIER for each other." LINUX Registered User #193975. AMD-K7 ATHLON CPU power on board.