While no applications are running, something is writing to the HD, using all available space

Very strange issue - This a White Mac Book, probably 6 years old, running 10.8.4 with 4g ram, 160G HD.
There's some process writing to the hard drive while no applications are running, using all the available disk space. I can watch the available space become less and less. At the same time, everytime I try to move anything to the trash, I get a prompt to authenticate. Once a password is entered, the files don't get put into the trash, but become deleted right away.
Things I've done to attempt to correct:
Flash P-Ram - no effect
fsck -fy from single user - disk structure is ok, no errors.
Run verify and repair permissions from the recovery partition. Had no effect.
There is no AV app installed, but there's no space to install to check for viruses. Whatever is writing to the disk uses any available space which won't allow anything to be installed.
Can't create a new user as there's no disk space.
Only option I see is reinstalling the OS which I'm trying to avoid if I can.
Any thoughts/Suggestions? Thanks.

If you haven't done so, try a Safe Mode boot ..
Startup your Mac in Safe Mode
A Safe Mode boot takes a longer than a normal boot so be patient.
Once you are in Safe Mode, click Restart from the Apple () menu.
If that doesn't help, try locating a diagnostics log file.
Open the Console app located in HD > Applications > Utilites
Select: System Diagnostic Reports on the left.
Copy and paste the most recent kernel panic or crash log in your Reply.
Hopefully that will narrow down the problem.

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