On Fri, 18 May 2012 09:07:08 Steve Holdoway wrote:
> 
> The only thing that gets cleared down on a reboot ( by default! )
> is /tmp. Nothing else gets touched.
> 
> Steve

That's not quite the whole picture.

If you are doing regular software updates, extra disk space will be used by 
the currently in use files until they are released, which happens as they are 
shutdown and closed by programs (for example). Even logging out and back in 
again sometimes regains 20-50MB after an apt-get dist-upgrade (on sid) for me.

Updating the kernel I find consumes about 15MB until I reboot. OpenOffice and 
Chromium use more.

There are other reasons this can happen in addition to software updates, but 
they should be more rare.

Regards
Lee Begg
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