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The first consequence of a full home directory ("over quota") is the inability to login from the graphical desktop environment. You can always login from the command line (Alt-Control-F1 until F6) in order to delete unnecessary files - directories.

 

Useful commands are:

 

  • quota (displays users' disk usage and limits)
  • du -sh ~ (displays the file system block usage for the home directory)

 

The du command can show the size of files/directories: 
 

  • du -sh ~/* | sort -hr | more (for files/directories with names beginning with a letter or number)
  • du -sh ~/.??* | sort -hr | more (for files/directories with names beginning with a dot)

 

After this procedure, delete or remove outside your account the bigger files/directories.