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You can use baobab or ncdu to try to figure out what's filling it up.
I installed baobab 48.0.2 with
sudo apt
.should I install ncdu 2.9.1 with
uniget install ncdu
? the apt version is older than thatYou do you, but I think it's rarely worth it having the absolutely newest version of something. The Debian version of a package may be older, but often has the advantage of being well-tested. And the Debian version of ncdu is all I've ever used and it has worked well.
uniget, huh? That's not a package manager I've ever heard of before.