Re: why is my local user (/dev/sda5) drive not being displayed by df?

[Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 01:21:17PM +0100, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 01:02:59PM +0100, Albretch Mueller wrote:
> >  with your help I found a way around it (here is my silly scripting):
> > 
> > $ sudo _DF=$(df -h)
> 
> I don't think you need "sudo" for "df"?

And a good thing, too, because that syntax is completely wrong.

wooledg:~$ sudo x=$(id)
usage: sudo -h | -K | -k | -V
usage: sudo -v [-AknS] [-g group] [-h host] [-p prompt] [-u user]
usage: sudo -l [-AknS] [-g group] [-h host] [-p prompt] [-U user] [-u user]
            [command]
usage: sudo [-AbEHknPS] [-r role] [-t type] [-C num] [-g group] [-h host] [-p
            prompt] [-T timeout] [-u user] [VAR=value] [-i|-s] [<command>]
usage: sudo -e [-AknS] [-r role] [-t type] [-C num] [-g group] [-h host] [-p
            prompt] [-T timeout] [-u user] file ...
wooledg:~$ sudo x=$(df -h)
[sudo] password for wooledg: 
sudo: Size: command not found

I think what Albretch was *trying* to do was this:

_DF=$(sudo df -h)

which would work, but as Tomas said, the sudo is just not needed.

P.S. see <https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/094> for more information
on parsing df output, in general.