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 1. Using the following command, you can get a list of items in your home, sorted by size in MB:  1. With the following command, you get a list of items in your home, sorted by size in MB:

How can I find space eating files in my home?

There are many ways to get the information you need. Some examples are:

  1. With the following command, you get a list of items in your home, sorted by size in MB:

    du -sm ~/.??* ~/* | sort -n -r | less

    If you replace -sm with -sk, the size will be shown in KB.

  2. Use the ncurses based tool ncdu.

  3. Use a graphical tool like Disk Usage Analyzer on GNOME or Filelight on KDE.


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