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Nice, but the output isn't the same. A flame graph can show multiple levels of subdirectories at the same time, proportionally sized to their total bytes, up to a maximum of the screen hight (say, 24). Looks like ncdu can only show 1 directory level at a time.


The thing with flame graphs, pie charts and all that is that I rarely find it that useful to see multiple directory levels at the same time. Unless it is /var/log/omg-why-dont-you-rotate that occupies hundreds of gigabytes, I always end up navigating through the largest near-the-root folders with baobab just to make room for subdirectories on the screen, which is hardly different from the typical ncdu (or even 'du -hs *, then cd') workflow.




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