How to determine cPanel user disk usage

Question

How do you determine a cPanel user's disk usage?

Answer

When a cPanel user exceeds their disk quota, you may want to know where the disk usage is located when determining if the cPanel user's disk quota should be increased or if the user can reduce disk usage.

You can obtain a summary of a cPanel user's disk usage in cPanel / Files / Disk Usage.

Optionally, you can use the du command in SSH to obtain a summary of a user's disk usage within the user's home directory, where $user is the username of the account:

# du -h --max-depth=1 /home/$user/ | sort -rh

Additional Resources

What's the source of "Other Usage" in Disk Space?