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/ is full. How do I find out what's taking up space?
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The other answer recommends installing ncdu which appears to be a great tool and loved by many users. However this is a “Catch 22” situation because when you are out of disk space you usually can’t install a program to find out why because… you have no disk space.
The only option is to use a program already installed:
$ sudo du -cha --max-depth=1 --exclude=/mnt / 2>/dev/null
40M /core
1.7G /var
6.5M /dev
15M /bin
3.4M /tmp
681M /opt
6.5G /usr
4.4G /lib
3.9M /lib32
17M /root
15M /etc
1.1G /boot
12G /home
13M /sbin
1.8M /run
26G /
26G total