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DF Command

The df command in Linux and Unix systems is used to report the amount of disk space available on file systems. It displays the amount of free space and used space on mounted file systems by default, or on a specific file system if specified. Various options allow displaying results in different units, limiting results to certain file system types, or showing additional details like inode usage.

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DF Command

The df command in Linux and Unix systems is used to report the amount of disk space available on file systems. It displays the amount of free space and used space on mounted file systems by default, or on a specific file system if specified. Various options allow displaying results in different units, limiting results to certain file system types, or showing additional details like inode usage.

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Linux df command

Updated: 06/16/2017 by Computer Hope

• About df
• df syntax
• df examples
• Related commands
• Linux and Unix commands help

About df
The df command reports the amount of available disk space being used by file systems.

Description
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 1 K 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). df cannot show the space available on unmounted file systems,
because on most kinds of systems doing so requires very system-specific knowledge of file system
structures.
df syntax
df [OPTION]... [FILE]...

Options
-a, --all Include dummy file systems.
Scale sizes by SIZE before printing them. E.g., '-BM' prints sizes in units
-B, --block-size=SIZE
of 1,048,576 bytes. See "SIZE Format" below for more information.
--total Display a grand total.
-h, --human-readable Print sizes in human readable format (e.g., 1K 234M 2G).
-H, --si Same as -h, but use powers of 1000 instead of 1024.
-i, --inodes List inode information instead of block usage.
-k Like --block-size=1K.
-l, --local Limit listing to local file systems.
Do not invoke a sync before getting usage info, which is the default
--no-sync
setting.
-P, --portability Use the POSIX output format.
--sync Invoke a 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; included for compatibility reasons.
--help Display a help message and exit.
--version Output version information and exit.

SIZE Format
Display values are in units of the first available SIZE from --block-size, and the DF_BLOCK_SIZE,
BLOCK_SIZE and BLOCKSIZE environment variables. Otherwise, units default to 1024 bytes (or 512
if POSIXLY_CORRECT is set).
SIZE is an integer and optional unit (example: 10M is 10*1024*1024). Units are K, M, G, T, P, E, Z, Y
(powers of 1024) or KB, MB, ... (powers of 1000).

df examples
df

Display all file systems and their disk usage, as in the following output:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/loop0 18761008 15246876 2554440 86% /
none 4 0 4 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev 493812 4 493808 1% /dev
tmpfs 100672 1364 99308 2% /run
none 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock
none 503352 1764 501588 1% /run/shm
none 102400 20 102380 1% /run/user
/dev/sda3 174766076 164417964 10348112 95% /host

df -h

Same as above, but use "human readable" formatting, as in the following example:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/loop0 18G 15G 2.5G 86% /
none 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev 483M 4.0K 483M 1% /dev
tmpfs 99M 1.4M 97M 2% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 492M 1.8M 490M 1% /run/shm
none 100M 20K 100M 1% /run/user
/dev/sda3 167G 157G 9.9G 95% /host

df public_html

Display the amount of free space in the public_html directory, as in the following output:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/loop0 18761008 15246924 2554392 86% /

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