As you are probably aware, the root terminals in our linux systems
generally have awfully dark colors for directory names. This makes it
hard to read them on the black-backgrounded terminals some of us prefer.
There are two things you can do to improve this:
First, you can make the dark colors bright, by adding this to your
(root's) .bash_profile:
if [ `uname` = 'Linux' ] ; then
eval `dircolors --sh /etc/DIR_COLORS`
fi
...or alternatively, you can just get rid of the colors entirely with