Out of disk space message

Can anyone advise me please? My disk space seems to be fluctuating from 2.2gb free space to Zero kb. In between I notice that the available space goes up and down. Is someone downloading from me?
All I keep getting is 'out of disk space' error messages.
When I reboot the disk space shows 2.2gb free but then in an hour or so I start getting the messages.

zinga wrote:
Me three.
Channeling Theodore Sturgeon?
my 'other' things takes up 400GB out of my whole 500GB mac mini hard drive.
(1) This is the Macbook Pro forum, not the Mac Mini forum.
(2) How do you know the other two are also using Lion?
(3) How do you know you have the same 'problem'?
What onClick reported—a variation of ~0.6GB in a free disk space—is reasonable. His only problem was that he wasn't leaving enough free space on his boot drive.
As to stulid, 2.2GB variation may be normal—depending on what the OS is doing, and how much swapping is taking place. He had a serious problem with free disk space—one is courting trouble if one lets it come close to zero. But that was long ago…

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