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[Niklas Wenzel <nikwen.developer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Am Fr, 10. Apr, 2015 um 11:49 schrieb Robert Schroll 
<rschroll@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Niklas Wenzel 
> <nikwen.developer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Also check out the following stackoverflow answer which explains the 
> > difference between free and available memory: 
> > http://stackoverflow.com/a/16789805
>
> As I said, I'm aware that these numbers aren't going to agree.  But 
> right now, /home is using seven times the space that the files 
> themselves take up.  If a filesystem needs six times as much space 
> for its inodes, journal, and root blocks as it does for actual 
> content, I feel that something is wrong.

As I mentioned, I guess it is because the home directory is on the same 
partition as the whole root directory.
What does a simple "df -h" give you? That would help verifying that.