2 df \- report filesystem disk space usage
5 documents the GNU version of
8 displays the amount of disk space available on the filesystem
9 containing each file name argument. If no file name is given, the
10 space available on all currently mounted filesystems is shown. Disk
11 space is shown in 1K blocks by default, unless the environment
12 variable POSIXLY_CORRECT is set, in which case 512-byte blocks are
15 If an argument is the absolute file name of a disk device node containing a
18 shows the space available on that filesystem rather than on the
19 filesystem containing the device node (which is always the root
20 filesystem). This version of
22 cannot show the space available on unmounted filesystems, because on
23 most kinds of systems doing so requires very nonportable intimate
24 knowledge of filesystem structures.