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Backup your files!
rsync -a -v /home/student <username>@access.scs.carleton.ca:COMP3000/

Become root (so you can delete anything)
sudo su -

Check how much free space you have in your current directory (human readable):
df -h .

Find out which files/directories are taking up too much space
du -x / | sort -nr | head

Delete files
rm <file>
rm -rf <directory> # -f means force, so be sure you specify the right directory!

Clean logs (you may need to reboot to empty out active log files)
rm /var/log/<large log file>
journalctl --vacuum-size=1M # keep only one megabyte of logs

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