linux - Total disk usage for a particular user

I would like to see the total disk usage for myself on a particular file system. I executed the command

du -h ~my_user_name

However, this lists every directory owned by my_user_name. I would like to get the sum total of all of this information. What is the appropriate option to pass? I tried

du -h -c ~my_user_name

but that did not work.

Answer

Passing -s to du will restrict the output to only the items specified on the command line.

du -sh ~