File system bafflement

[Rashkae]

On 14-09-02 05:12 AM, R Kimber wrote:
> All the following have their own separate partitions:
> /usr, /var, /tmp, /home, /usr/local
> and df reports that they are all less than 50% full
>
> The size of the root partition is 4GB, a

Last time I had a failing disk in my system, I ended up with over 20GB 
of log files in /var/log.

you can run this command to see which directories are taking up all the 
space:

cd /

sudo du -shx *