From: vallor@vallor.earth   
      
   At Sun, 5 Oct 2025 21:54:59 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveir   
   ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:   
      
   > On Sun, 5 Oct 2025 22:45:43 +0100, RobH wrote:   
   >   
   > > Running df -h shows sda3 on the 250GB disk, as using 175Gb   
   > > How can I find out why it is using so much space   
   >   
   > Assuming it is mounted at /«mount-point», then you can look at t>   
   usage of the top-level directories on that volume with a command like   
   >   
   >    du -ks /«mount-point»/>   
   > and then drill down from there. If you have other volumes mounted   
   > under it, then they will confuse the issue. You can get around that   
   > with a bind mount.   
      
   Good advice.   
      
   There's also the -S option to du, which totals up   
   usage in directories.  So:   
      
   sudo du -Sx / > /tmp/d.sizes   
      
   Then:   
      
   sort -rn /tmp/d.sizes > /tmp/sorted.d.sizes   
      
   head /tmp/sorted.d.sizes   
      
   The "-x" in "du -Sx" means to stay on the same filesystem,   
   so if /home is separate, you'll need to repeat the process   
   there.   
      
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