Alternative command for coloured viewing the size of all files and folders
This is not coloured, but also really nicely ordered by size and visualized:
ncdu - NCurses Disk Usage
apt-get install ncdu
SYNOPSIS
ncdu [options] dirDESCRIPTION
ncdu (NCurses Disk Usage) is a curses-based version of the well-known 'du', and provides a fast way to see what directories are using your disk space.
Output looks like this:
ncdu 1.10 ~ Use the arrow keys to navigate, press ? for help
--- /var/www/freifunk -------------------------------------------------------------
470,7MiB [##########] /firmware
240,8MiB [##### ] /ffki-firmware
157,9MiB [### ] /gluon-alfred-vis
102,6MiB [## ] chaosradio_162.mp3
100,2MiB [## ] /ffki-startseite
99,6MiB [## ] /ffki-startseite-origin
72,3MiB [# ] /startseite
66,2MiB [# ] /metameute-startseite
35,2MiB [ ] /startseite_site
11,9MiB [ ] /jungebuehne
ncdu is nice, cause you can install it via apt
on debian. Only colors would be cool and an export function that does not use the whole screen.
gt5 - a diff-capable 'du-browser'
gt5
looks quite the same, and there are some colors, but they have no meaning (only all files and folders are green). gt5 is also available via apt:
sudo apt-get install gt5
I see the below information from here.
cdu (for Color du) is a perl script which call du and display a pretty histogram with optional colors which allow to imediatly see the directories which take disk space.
With no arguments, cdu reports the disk space for all subdirectories of the current directory. With only one directory argument, cdu reports the disk space for all subdirectories of the given directory. You can also call du with no predefined options. For more documentation about available options, see the manpage below.