On Monday 19 March 2018 06:39:23 Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 06:25:15AM -0700, William Morder wrote:
> > So I get this in my terminal:
>
> (I presume this is the output of du -- it might help if you show the
> actual command you ran.)

Yes, sorry, I ran 
du -sch /*
as per Nik Klepp's recommendation. 

Sorry, I don't always recognize that you haven't followed the threads. I try 
to be clear. 
>
> > 4.0K    /afs
> > 11M     /bin
> > 160M    /boot
> > 0       /dev
> > 57M     /etc
> > 26G     /home
> > 0       /initrd.img
> > 0       /initrd.img.old
> > 576M    /lib
> > 4.0K    /live-build
> > 16K     /lost+found
> >
> > Nothing looks too much out of the ordinary; I already can account for
> > everything in my /home directory, I think, and next biggest is /lib. So
> > how does 18 gb vanish?
>
> Sorry for asking a dumb question, but what makes you say that 18GB has
> vanished?
>
Well, I have allotted 18 gb for my root partition, and kdf shows me as having 
169.5 mb free at the moment. Before I rebooted (just now), I had about 262 
mb, I think it was. A couple weeks ago, I had over 1 gb free, and I haven't 
downloaded anything. 

> Also, I'm a little disturbed by the fact that you don't appear to have a
> / partition, although I'm not up to date with the brave new world of
> systemd, maybe there's no such thing anymore...
>
I said this earlier, but here are my partitions: 

sda1 /                   18 gb
sda2 swap             4 gb
sda3 /home          78 gb
(more or less)

> What do you get when you run this?
>
> df --si
/dev/sda1        18G   17G  178M  99% /
udev             11M     0   11M   0% /dev
tmpfs           423M  6.7M  416M   2% /run
tmpfs           1.1G     0  1.1G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.3M  4.1k  5.3M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs           1.1G     0  1.1G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda3        77G   28G   46G  38% /home
tmpfs           212M   13k  212M   1% /run/user/1000

Looks like tmpfs has the most used up. 

Bill