GNU/Linux Desktop Survival Guide by Graham Williams
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Sample Usage

It is useful to see where the disk is being used for an installed system. Below we identify the usage on several systems at some specific time.

Host	Alpine	Festival	Cultus	Mint
Disk	66G	69G	36G	8G
/bin	3M	3M	3M	3M
/boot	21M	37M	17M	10M
/dev				60M
/etc	32M	37M	27M	38M
/home	21G	2G	2G	3G
/lib	153M	124M	89M	80M
/sbin	4M	4M	3M	3M
/tmp	2G	0G	2M	6M
/usr	5G	4G	3G	3G
/var	21G	16G	2G	284M

Notes: The 16G in /var on Festival (104.18) is taken up with database files for mysql. Similarly, on Alpine (104.27) 19G of the 21G is in /var/lib/mysql.