Disk space inconsistencies

Hello!
I am new to Fedora (Silverblue to be specific) and especially the use of terminal commands.

I found some puzzling inconsistencies in my displayed disk usage:
When I enter the df -h command, it suggest that I am using 192 GB out of 242 GB.

Yet the disk usage analyser only registers 100 GB of data, out of which 88 GB are the Blockchain of Monero.

Besides the Monero Blockchain ( as seen in the screenshot as .bitmonero), I have hardly any other data on this partition.

How does it come to this discrepancy? What’s the deal with the other 100 GB?
Thanks in advance for your help!

Your BTRFS partition (device /dev/nvme0n1p6) has several subvolumes (var, home and root), identified in your first screenshot with their corresponding mount points (/var, /var/home and /sysroot).

The second screenshot, however, presenting the results of the Disk Usage Analyser, only shows the details of the Home directory (i.e. user’s Home folder within the home subvolume).

You’ll need to check what takes up the rest of the space (e.g. other users’ home directories, if any, OSTree deployments and containers in /sysroot, Flatpaks and their runtimes in /var/lib/flatpak, BTRFS snapshots, if there were any taken etc).

It is also documented that the df command can be unreliable when run on BTRFS file systems. Please also observe the specific features of atomic desktops, where the root file system has lots of symbolic links and mount points, many of the system folders being created at run time from the booted RPM-OSTree image deployment.

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Thank you for your answer.
I’ll check you suggestions out.

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