~$ sudo apt-get

When you have to deal with system that lacks lsof and cannot be easily installed, you can run the following to show information regarding currently open file handlers.

ls -l `ls -l /proc/*/fd/ 2>/dev/null | grep ">" | cut -d ">" -f 2 | grep "/" | sort | uniq`

If the culprit of disk space usage has already been deleted, you’ll find the following in your output.

ls: /var/log/openvswitch/ovs-vswitchd.log.1: No such file or directory
ls: (deleted): No such file or directory

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Teran came up with the following.

for file in `ls -l /proc/*/fd/* | grep deleted | awk '{print $9}'`; do echo -n "$file "; ls -l $file | awk '{print $11}' | tr -d '\n'; stat -L $file | grep Size; done