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When you try to log onto a Linux Machine, you get an error message saying "Could not Update ICEauthority" and it won't let you on.

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When you are able to login via terminal but not graphically or via more complicated programs such as vscode

Reason

This is due to your account hitting either a Space or File Count quota limit.

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You can judge which are good candidates to delete or compress.

You can manually check the size of a specific directory by using the du command, while the -sh flag puts size in a human readable format.

du -sh example_directory

It is also possible to use the find command to recursively check how many files are in a folder and all its sub-folders.

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