Invisible disk space usage

[Jerome Camus]

A strange behaviour has appeared in the past 48 hours on an OS X server 10.1.4

Apparently, the available disk space is dropping precipitously - 
about 3 gb being consumed daily.


Checked every folder for its size and all there appears normal - 
nothing is above its expected levels.  Sum the folders up & there 
should be a *lot* more disk space available.

Re-booting the machine does wonders:  the available disk space on the 
boot disk comes back to normal.  Trying to monitor if the jump in 
invisibly conusmed disk space occurs gradually or in chunks, but have 
no data on that yet.

This is curious behaviour indeed as no interventions have occured to 
the server & system in a while.

Disturbing as well, because it means having to re-launch a machine 
when we're not supposed to.