The SSD on my MacBook Pro gen 1 keeps filling up for no reason.

I've been having a problem ever since I installed Lion where my MBP gen 1 SSD keeps filling up for no reason, then I get the "startup disk full" error and my programs freeze. I've disabled local Time Machine backups and cleaned out the SSD as much as I could. I've found the only way to free the space on the SSD is to repair the disk using disk utility. But after reparing the disk, it eventually fills up again and I have to keep repairing the disk to free the space again. Does anybody else have this problem and know what's causing it? And is there a fix?

Samuraijohnny wrote:
the Repair Disk utility keeps finding there's an error in the amount of free space/blocks being reported. To me this sounds almost like a problem with Lion itself.
I asume that you ran Disk Utility [Repair] in Recovery HD. If the error keeps recurring then it may be a bad disk.

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