How to determine cPanel user disk usage

Introduction

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.

Procedure

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 Information

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