On Monday 19 March 2018 12:34:39 Felix Miata wrote:
> William Morder composed on 2018-03-19 09:31 (UTC-0700):
> ...
>
> > 13G     total
> > - where I find that /usr/lib and /usr/share take up the most. I don't
> > think you really want to read the whole list for these folders. Thus here
> > are the items that take up the most space. Most look pretty innocuous:
> > 1.6G    /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu
> > but in /usr/lib at the end I get
> > 5.3G     total
> > - but nothing else is more than a few kb or mb. The same thing happens
> > when I look in /usr/share; the biggest item is:
> > 1.9G    /usr/share/doc
> > - and nothing else takes up more than a few kb or mb, yet at the end I
> > get: 6.1G     total
>
> 1-Have you ever manually added content to, or removed content from, /usr/
> (other than /usr/local/), including with a backup/restore program (not
> package any manager)?

No. 
>
> 2-Is your / filesystem type BTRFS?
No, but I was trying to format a flash drive, and that somehow started coming 
up afterwards. However, the flash drive in question is not connected, and I 
intend to format it as FAT-32, so I can use it on other systems. 
>
> 3-How many installed kernels and initrds do you have?

2 each: 
initrd.img                27.5 mb
initrd.img.old         26.4 mb
vmlinuz                    2.9 mb
vmlinuz.old              2.7 mb
>
> 4-Do you have many optional font packages installed?

I do have lots of fonts installed, practically everything available. But I've 
always done that (since 2006 when I started running Linux), because I work 
with text and layout. 
>
> 5-Asking on debian-user list may draw a more helpful response.
>
> If answer to 1 is yes, suspect possible broken hard links.
>
> Even though we both use 18G / filesystems, mine has only 444M in /usr/lib/
> and 1.3G in /usr/share/. I have 5 installed kernels, and EXT4 /.
> # df /
> Filesystem     1K-blocks    Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/md2        18011336 7691316   9382044  46% /

About a month ago, I had something like 2.2 gb free in my / (sda1) partition; 
then it went down to 1.5, then to 1 gb, then to 800 mb, 600, 400, 200, and 
now I am at about 165 mb, and sometimes it goes down to 0. In all this time, 
I haven't installed anything new, or done anything different. 

Bill