how much space for /

[jle]

> 226990  ./root
> 24076   ./sbin
> 281305  .
> #
>
>
>
> so what it appears that . is the culprit, correct. I am still learning
> to read the du command.
>
> Thanks in ./adv

No, "." is your current directory which in your case was / the total size
is ~281M. The culprit seems to be /root which is using ~226M.

To read du (or df) output easier use the -h switch.
du -h
df -h

HTH