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Manual Reference Pages  - DF (1)

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df - report filesystem disk space usage

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

This manual page documents the GNU version of df. df displays the amount of disk space available on the filesystem containing each file name argument. If no file name is given, the space available on all currently mounted filesystems 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 filesystem, df shows the space available on that filesystem rather than on the filesystem containing the device node (which is always the root filesystem). This version of df cannot show the space available on unmounted filesystems, because on most kinds of systems doing so requires very nonportable intimate knowledge of filesystem structures.

Show information about the filesystem on which each FILE resides, or all filesystems by default.

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

-a, --all	include filesystems having 0 blocks
-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, --kilobytes
	deprecated, like --block-size=1K
-l, --local
	limit listing to local filesystems
--no-sync	do not invoke sync before getting usage info (default)
-m, --megabytes
	deprecated, like --block-size=1M
-P, --portability
	use the POSIX output format
--sync	invoke sync before getting usage info
-t, --type=TYPE
	limit listing to filesystems of type TYPE
-T, --print-type
	print filesystem type
-x, --exclude-type=TYPE
	limit listing to filesystems 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.

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

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

Copyright © 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

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 coreutils df

should give you access to the complete manual.

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