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Clear message

How can I find space eating files in my home?

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

  1. Using the following command, you can 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.

graphical approach

Try using jdiskreport as a graphical tool. When jdiskreport get startet you can choose the directory it should scan. Here are some Screenshots as an example.

JDiskReport_shot1.png JDiskReport_shot2.png JDiskReport_shot3.png JDiskReport_shot4.png


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