Finding disk hogs?

[rec9140]

I am trying to find something, preferably CLI, as for some of the situations, there is no X11 server any way... to find DISK HOGS.

I've been through du, journctrl, reviewing /var/log/ etc.. to find what is eating disk space, nothing provides the "smoking gun" as to where the space is going, and then backtrack to what is writing in there...

I know whats running, on these things, and one, yeah it writes data, and it will end up being alot, but even when this process has its data compressed and removed from that disk, there is something(s) still hogging space, and short of honestly rebuilding the system from scratch ie: new HD, reinstall etc.. Which seems like the hammer, which I like to use too, but it seems odd, and likely to end up at the same point.

Something is hogging disk space, but again du etc. don't provide a hey theres 1000000GB stored in some /etc/stupidprogram/logs/! Do you need that

Any ideas?

Thanks!

[die.boer]

please post output of

sudo lsof +L1

you can also look at ncdu. It's a very useful interactive, terminal-based disk usage analyser.

sudo apt install ncdu

sudo ncdu -x /

[Snowhog]

I use: sudo du -h / 2>/dev/null | grep '[0-9\.]\+G'

[rec9140]

lsof output:

~$ sudo lsof +L1
[sudo] password for someUser:
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NLINK NODE NAME
kded5 1072 someUser 35r REG 253,1 23085 0 1588454 /var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_bionic-security_multiverse_binary-i386_Packages (deleted)
kded5 1072 someUser 36r REG 253,1 3652426 0 1587587 /var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_bionic-security_universe_i18n_Translation-en (deleted)
kded5 1072 someUser 37r REG 253,1 5997302 0 1587464 /var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_bionic-security_universe_binary-i386_Packages (deleted)
kded5 1072 someUser 39r REG 253,1 205534 0 1588701 /var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_bionic-security_restricted_binary-i386_Packages (deleted)
kded5 1072 someUser 40r REG 253,1 11853433 0 1587688 /var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_bionic-security_main_i18n_Translation-en (deleted)
kded5 1072 someUser 41r REG 253,1 7232052 0 1587516 /var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_bionic-security_main_binary-i386_Packages (deleted)
kded5 1072 someUser 42r REG 253,1 28390 0 1574274 /var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_bionic-backports_universe_i18n_Translation-en (deleted)
kded5 1072 someUser 43r REG 253,1 82863 0 1588700 /var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_bionic-backports_universe_binary-i386_Packages (deleted)
kded5 1072 someUser 44r REG 253,1 138475 0 1574287 /var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_bionic-backports_main_i18n_Translation-en (deleted)
kded5 1072 someUser 45r REG 253,1 319441 0 1588694 /var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_bionic-backports_main_binary-i386_Packages (deleted)
kded5 1072 someUser 47r REG 253,1 47463 0 1588474 /var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_bionic-updates_multiverse_binary-i386_Packages (deleted)
kded5 1072 someUser 48r REG 253,1 4777759 0 1588457 /var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_bionic-updates_universe_i18n_Translation-en (deleted)
kded5 1072 someUser 49r REG 253,1 9515321 0 1587519 /var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_bionic-updates_universe_binary-i386_Packages (deleted)
kded5 1072 someUser 51r REG 253,1 270953 0 1588211 /var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_bionic-updates_restricted_binary-i386_Packages (deleted)
kded5 1072 someUser 52r REG 253,1 12849723 0 1587517 /var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_bionic-updates_main_i18n_Translation-en (deleted)
kded5 1072 someUser 53r REG 253,1 8730977 0 1587338 /var/lib/apt/lists/us.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_bionic-updates_main_binary-i386_Packages (deleted)
pulseaudi 1158 someUser 6u REG 0,1 67108864 0 27333 /memfd:pulseaudio (deleted)
someUser@marilyn:~$ man lsof

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For the other replies, sorry, I don't see any thing productive from those, and if I recall I've been through them, with no joy to start.