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Name

df - report file system disk space usage

Synopsis

df [OPTION]... [FILE]...

Description

This manual page documents the GNU version of df. df displays the amount of disk space available on the file system containing each file name argument. If no file name is given, the space available on all currently mounted file systems is shown. Disk space is shown in 1K blocks by default, unless the environment variable POSIXLY_CORRECT is set, in which case 512-byte blocks are used.

If an argument is the absolute file name of a disk device node containing a mounted file system, df shows the space available on that file system rather than on the file system containing the device node (which is always the root file system). This version of df cannot show the space available on unmounted file systems, because on most kinds of systems doing so requires very nonportable intimate knowledge of file system structures.

Options

Show information about the file system on which each FILE resides, or all file systems by default.

Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

-a, --all
include dummy file systems

-B, --block-size=SIZE
use SIZE-byte blocks

-h, --human-readable
print sizes in human readable format (e.g., 1K 234M 2G)

-H, --si
likewise, but use powers of 1000 not 1024

-i, --inodes
list inode information instead of block usage

-k
like --block-size=1K

-l, --local
limit listing to local file systems

--no-sync
do not invoke sync before getting usage info (default)

-P, --portability
use the POSIX output format

--sync invoke sync before getting usage info

-t, --type=TYPE
limit listing to file systems of type TYPE

-T, --print-type
print file system type

-x, --exclude-type=TYPE
limit listing to file systems not of type TYPE

-v
(ignored)

--help display this help and exit

--version
output version information and exit

SIZE may be (or may be an integer optionally followed by) one of following: kB 1000, K 1024, MB 1000*1000, M 1024*1024, and so on for G, T, P, E, Z, Y.

Author

Written by Torbjorn Granlund, David MacKenzie, and Paul Eggert.

Reporting Bugs

Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.

Copyright

Copyright © 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

See Also

The full documentation for df is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and df programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info df

should give you access to the complete manual.

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