ncdu vs dired-du-mode

ncdu a very nice utility that does what you probably want to do when you do 'du -sh *'  repeatedly in different directories.

ncdu allows for navigating through the directory structure seeing sizes and disk usage percentages of files and subdirectories. Also, has vi-friendly keybindings.

Of course, there's a way to do a very similar thing in emacs, which is using `dired-du-mode`. Take a look at the "c-x c-h" keybind to toggle human friendly numbers, and m-x dired-du-count-size to aggregate the sizes of all marked files.