Really bizzare root "/" space usage issue....

I'll start by apologizing in advance....
Now that I have done that I can hopefully proceed without ticking off anyone...
I have Arch 0.7 installed and Kde which I just downloaded and installed last night. Everything is running well, no issues there.
My issue is with the space taken up by root "/". During the partitioning process I had assigned it a generous ( I thought ) 1GB. /Var has 7Gb, /usr has 9Gb, the swap is 734MB and /home is 30Gb. So far so good.
For some strange reason when I run hwd -y the usage indicator for root "/" is 65% used. That strikes me as a hell of a lot of space for root to use, especially if just Arch and KDE are on the system, at least I would think so.
I have had a wonderful time looking through the wiki and googleing over this issue and learned a lot of new and interesting things, but not why this is happening. :x
du and df have helped a bit and /var/log has about 30 MB of log messages
so it is not there. /tmp has virtually no usage 1 MB total or so.
I have also done pacman -Scc as well, however I am still at 65% usage.
Now it is entirely possible that I don't fully understand WHAT this truly means, but I do know I don't want to fill up the root filesystem. Should I e ven be worried?
Any assistance, ideas, RTFM comments are welcome...
BobL

Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
4.7G 627M 4.1G 14% /
32G 1.8G 30G 6% /home
92M 8.2M 79M 10% /boot
2.8M bin
4.2M boot
2.0M etc
1.8G home
33M lib
544K opt
897M proc
5.6M sbin
36K tmp
472M usr
80M var
3.2G total
proc does not report space properly with du. As many of the things in proc are virtual...It is possible that hwd -y is improperly reporting it..dunno.
try "df -h" to get a better result.
EDIT: Good point dusty, might be /opt being a problem too.

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