What is a typical disk footprint for OS X 10.5.8?

I have a MacBook running 10.5.8. It's a pretty bare-bones system, but I'm still running out of space. My Macbook has a 55.44 GB capacity drive of which only 1.96 GB is currently available. I'm trying to decide how much effort I should put into cleaning up unused files from this disk, and I'm uncertain what the typical disk footprint of a 10.5.8 install is.
I ran "sudo du -h -d 1 /" on my machine. Here are the largest top-level folders in descending order of size:
22G ./Library
6.7G ./Applications
5.9G ./Users
4.8G ./System
4.0G ./opt
4.0G ./usr
2.9G ./private
2.0G ./Developer
Obviously the size of the Users directory is particular to me, but does the rest of it look typical?

I don't have that answer for you, but I'd try a utility such as OmniDiskSweeper(which you can find at versiontracker.com) to get a good look at where your space has run off.
My Library folder (at the root of my system) is about 5.6 GB. Applications: 5.3 GB Users is 33.4 GB and System is 4.5 GB
~Lyssa

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