On Linux get disk space used per user when you are not root [closed]

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du --max-depth=1 will give the usage of the user you are logged in as. But we have a dev box shared by more than one team, so its getting tough to find the culprit.

If I am root I can do it but I am not the root user and dont want to ask the System Admins all the time to find the user with most usage.

Any ideas on this please.

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You can't determine the size of directories you have no read/execute permissions for, so this is only possible when being root.