Command for finding directory using most space on server

Hi there,
I have a virtual dedicated server with Godaddy. I don't have Plesk control as I just use Simple control panel. I do have root access though and was wondering if there is a simple command that I can run to view a summary of disk space usage for all my directories?

I am currently using around 80% of allocated server space and want to find out which websites are using the most space ... And just wondering if there is a simple command that I can run to find this out instead of individually running ls commands for all directories ... Also, I don't know whether the majority of space is used by my files or databases or by mail queues etc.

So in short, I would like to log into my server (switch to root access) and run a command on the root directory to give me a summary of disk usage for all my folders. Is there such a command?
dfsweb

 

it should be

du -sh

 

Hi there,
Thanks for the reply. I tried this command but it only returns one value ... in my case 9.1GB. I would like output like this:
Folder 1 - 20MB
Folder 2 - 30MB
Folder 3 - 8.9GB

So that I know which one is the main folder ... then I can drill down to that folder and run the same command again and so on until I find the culprit directory that's using up all my disk space.

Regards,
dsfweb

 

-S

for more
#man du

 

try in the current directory to run
du -h --max-depth=1

 

I usually like to use this:

du -cks * |sort -rn |head -11

 

I used the du -Sh command and eventurally found the culprit ... It is an error log file for one of my websites which is a whopping 7.3GB!!!

 

Do read at least the last 50 lines of the error_log file and correct the issues in the scripts or else the file will grow again in size and the problem will persist.