Logs to /dev/null

Dear experts, I was doing a dbload into a table that has a unique key defined. I knew that my imcoming data had a bunch of dups that would be kicked out to the log files. So, in the dbload command I had -l /dev/null and also 1> /dev/null and 2> /dev/null. I noticed that my free disk space was going down (in the middle of a vi I got message no more free disk space :( ). But I couldn't find any large files, nothing unusal showed up using "find" looking for large files. Then when the load was finished, I was back up to plenty of disk space. Does dbload write "hidden" files then pass them on to /dev/null? Any other ideas? Steve Goldberg Landata RE-Source goldberg@landata.com