On Tuesday 20 March 2018 05:46:48 pm William Morder wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 March 2018 11:29:17 deloptes wrote:
> > William Morder wrote:
> > > All I want is to track down the source of this issue, resolve it, then
> > > resize my root partition and change over to Devuan. And I can change to
> > > 64-bit later, as well, if that will work. My most pressing problem at
> > > the moment is why I am losing space on my root partition. Speaking of
> > > which: after a couple more hours (during most of which I have been
> > > offline, as I was attending to stuff in the real world), I am now down
> > > to 60.3 mb of free space. If you have followed these threads, I was at
> > > something like 165 mb a few hours ago, and 200+ mb a day or so ago.
> >
> > have you looked at ~/.xsession-errors ?
> >
> > regards
>
> Well, the file itself is 170.8 kb. As to the content, there are a lot of
> items, but it all seems to be ordinary processes. Should I be looking for
> something in particular?
>
> Bill

Re-install now, burning to many brain cells . The free space is way to small, 
my Debian occupied space in  root is 16 gb  out of 20gb. I thought it was a 
waste when I set this box up.

I hestitate to offer more info..what about swap?
\greg