I installed VMware-Player-3.1.6-744570.i386 on Ubuntu 11.4.  The 27.5 GB disk was about 45% full.  I then used VMware-Player to form a virtual machine for Centos, using ISO files for CentOS-6.5-i386.  I had done this on an old laptop, that also had Ubuntu 11.4 installed, and centos ran fine in the VM.However, in both cases, when I installed centos VMware-Player asked me if I wanted to install an update.  It was taking too long on the old laptop, which tends to overheat so I declined to do so on the laptop.  However, I decided to let the update run overnight on the desktop.  When I came down in the morning, the update was still running and there was only 1.5 GB left on the HD.  I used the disk usage analyzer and found that most of the disk space being used was in mu home directory.  However, when I went to my home directory and ransudo du | sort -nthe only recently update directory with heavy disk usage was the directory with centos ISOs and it was only taking up 4.8 GB.
VMware Player update filled up half of 27.5 GB disk. I need to find files and delete them
disk usage;vmware
If you need to see the files based on their size, you can try the below command. du -ah /home | grep -v /$ | sort -h | tail -6The above command will give the top 6 files which occupy the space. Then probably, you can decide whether those files are needed or to be deleted.I had a similar issue where I was in need to find the files that occupy more space and more details of that question can be found here.As per the suggestions in the answer, I would use one of the answers from this question, sorting files according to size recursively that shows you the top 10 largest files on your system.