Determining what eats up the space (without rooting)

[Agoston Bejo]

Hi!

I'm running low on free space on my Android. I have installed Termux so I could use "du -sk | sort -n" and stuff to find the largest directories, but:

$ cd /mnt/sdcard
$ du -sh . # count space used
545.0M .

$ df . # show disk usage
Filesystem Size Used Avail Free Blksize
. 4.6G 4.5G 125.3M 125.3M 4096

So it seems that of the 4.5G I as a regular user can only see (and thus do something about) about a half gigabyte.

Is there a way to find out what exactly is eating up the space without rooting the phone?

 

[anon(238680)]

Welcome to Android Central. What do you see when you go to Settings, Storage? That should give details of what is using space. You cannot access the OS area, really no need to anyway.

 

[Rukbat]

Also run Settings and go to Application manager. Each app will show the size it takes, both for itself and for data storage. Clear the caches of all of them while you're in there - an app not currently running should be using 0 cache size.