It’s possible that a process has opened a large file which has since been deleted. You’ll have to kill that process to free up the space. You may be able to identify the process by using lsof. On Linux deleted yet open files are known to lsof and marked as (deleted) in lsof’s output.
You can check this with sudo lsof +L1
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