Quote Originally Posted by Cuddles
But, mzilikazi, your /usr location, did come up with around 2.4 GB of total space being used -=- Funny thing, while I watched the "junk" scroll down the screen, I realized that I still have my kernel 2.6.6 source stored there -=- I had that when I needed to compile my 2.6 kernel with the NVidia video drivers -=- can I seriously "blow" that away now??? Or should I keep it "lying" around for future??? /usr/src/linux-2.6.6 comes up with 451 MB, I also have the source for 2.4 in there, and the NVidia... du -hc /usr/src comes up with around 589 MB -
Depends on which kernel you're running. When I upgrade kernels I always keep my last working kernel installed. Just in case I need to revert. Then remove the previous "known-working-kernel" as well as any source or patches that are related. If you're runnig 2.6.6 & 2.4.* is your 'known-working-kernel' I would keep it. If you've upgraded to 2.6.8.1 then get rid of the 2.4.*

so a lot of stuff is in the /usr folder, that is unaccounted for, say, around 2 GB...
You might also have a look through your installed packages and decide if you really need all of them. Perhaps some apps have simply become so much wasted space.

If you want a very good GUI for du (it's as functional as it is ugly) do:

sudo apt-get install xdiskusage
xdiskusage&