There is a graphical tool called Baobab.  You can find it in the menu under
Disk Usage Analyzer.  Exactly as you describe.

Wilbur

On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 2:07 PM, Petter Adsen <pet...@synth.no> wrote:

> On Fri, 13 May 2016 11:55:23 -0700
> "John R. Sowden" <jsow...@americansentry.net> wrote:
>
> > correction of version.  this is not a message from the future :)
> >
> > On 05/13/2016 11:51 AM, John R. Sowden wrote:
> > > There is a program in DOS called hog.  It shows me the amount of
> > > disk space consumed by each of the current directory's
> > > subdirectories in a pie chart with different colors.  I can
> > > instantly see where I am consuming disk space. Is there something
> > > like that for Linux?  I use Ubuntu 14.04.
> > >
> > > If not, is there a way of displaying directory's consumed disk
> > > space in Thunar?
>
> In addition to 'du', there is ncurses-based 'ncdu' for a prettier
> output.
>
> Petter
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