Re: Determining used disk space

[Dave Sherohman <esper@sherohman.org>]

On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 10:51:48AM -0400, R. Bradley Tilley wrote:
> 'df -a' shows objects that use space such as .gnupg and other hidden 
> directories and files. You make it out to seem that it does not.
> 
> You are correct, you don't need to know that proc (a virtual fs) is using 0 of 
> 0 bytes, however, you may want to know that .emacs is 994 bytes.
> 
> the -l lists in a more orderly format.

You're not talking about the standard Debian df, then.  According to
`man df`:

       -a, --all
              include filesystems having 0 blocks

       -l, --local
              limit listing to local filesystems

$ df
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1              3028080   2766272    107988  96% /
/dev/hda6              8443964   6957604   1057428  87% /home

$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1             2.9G  2.6G  105M  96% /
/dev/hda6             8.1G  6.6G  1.0G  87% /home

$ df -alh
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1             2.9G  2.6G  105M  96% /
proc                     0     0     0   -  /proc
devpts                   0     0     0   -  /dev/pts
/dev/hda6             8.1G  6.6G  1.0G  87% /home

Filenames are not relevant to (this) df.  I initially suspected that
you were confusing df with du, but `man du` doesn't agree with you
about the meaning of -a and -l either.

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