Here is how to get a user’s disk space usage on a cPanel user:
WHM
You can see the usage on the left-hand side of cPanel, or in the ‘List Accounts’ view of WHM:
du:
du -h /home/$userQuota cache:
egrep "^${user} " /var/cpanel/repquota.cacheActual quota:
quota -v | egrep "^${user} "cPanel datastore:
cat /home/$user/.cpanel/datastore/_usr_bin_quota_-v![Screen Shot 2020 06 23 at 09.57.51 - WARNING: [pool user_USERNAME] server reached pm.max_children setting (25), consider raising it](https://i0.wp.com/administrator.pejcic.rs/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Screen-Shot-2020-06-23-at-09.57.51.png?resize=344%2C194&ssl=1 "WARNING: [pool user_USERNAME] server reached pm.max_children setting (25), consider raising it")
![2023 08 28 12 15 - node[175421]: pthread_create: Resource temporarily unavailable](https://i0.wp.com/administrator.pejcic.rs/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/2023-08-28_12-15.png?resize=344%2C194&ssl=1 "node[175421]: pthread_create: Resource temporarily unavailable")