Finding what sucked up my hard drive?

any suggestions on locating what file, is filling up my hard drive? i suddenly only have 8mb free on my 1tb, i had 177gb free a couple weeks ago, i know i didn't fill that myself. i think i have a log file sucking it up or something. any suggestions on finding it?

well, the only file i can find that i didn't put there, is this one
/home/urmom/.kdemod4/share/apps/nepomuk/repository/main/data/virtuosobackend/soprano-virtuoso.db
but its only 2.4gb.....and after checking directory sizes in /home/ with du, its not adding up to the amount of space that df is reporting used.....i tihnk i'm going to run fsck and see what happens

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