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Q Space invaders

My 1TB SSD is at 37 per cent full. It seems to be more full than expected. Is there a GUI program, or command line for terminal, that I can use to see the size(s) of files listed, instead of having to check the size of each folder individually with the mouse?

The only program that I can think of that may be taking up a lot of space is my Thunderbird mail, as it saves/archives many years’ worth of emails. However, upon checking the invisible folder .thunderbird, it’s only 3.5GB Perhaps there’s another folder that Thunderbird saves all the past emails in?

Michael

A You don’t say which distro or desktop you’re using, but for KDE there’s Filelight and for GNOME there’s Disk Usage Analyser. Both do a similar job, showing your directories grouped by space usage and enabling you to drill down to find exactly where the space hogs are located.

If you prefer the terminal, we recommend , which performs a similar job. It shows all the files and directories in the path you give it, or the current directory, sorted by size. Select a directory to obtain a breakdown of its components and so on. All