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⚡ TLDR: df (tldr-pages)

Display an overview of the filesystem disk space usage.

Display all filesystems and their disk usage (using 512-byte units)
df
Display the filesystem containing the specified file or directory
df {{path/to/file_or_directory}}
Use kibibyte (1024 byte) units when showing size figures
df -k
Display information in a portable way
df -P

DF(1) User Commands DF(1)

NAME
df - report file system disk space usage

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

DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents the GNU version of df. 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
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 file sys‐
tem, df shows the space available on that file system rather than on the file system contain‐
ing the device node. This version of df cannot show the space available on unmounted file
systems, because on most kinds of systems doing so requires very nonportable intimate knowl‐
edge of file system structures.

OPTIONS
Show information about the file system on which each FILE resides, or all file systems by de‐
fault.

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

-a, --all
include pseudo, duplicate, inaccessible file systems

-B, --block-size=SIZE
scale sizes by SIZE before printing them; e.g., '-BM' prints sizes in units of
1,048,576 bytes; see SIZE format below

-h, --human-readable
print sizes in powers of 1024 (e.g., 1023M)

-H, --si
print sizes in powers of 1000 (e.g., 1.1G)

-i, --inodes
list inode information instead of block usage

-k like --block-size=1K

-l, --local
limit listing to local file systems

--no-sync
do not invoke sync before getting usage info (default)

--output[=FIELD_LIST]
use the output format defined by FIELD_LIST, or print all fields if FIELD_LIST is
omitted.

-P, --portability
use the POSIX output format

--sync invoke sync before getting usage info

--total
elide all entries insignificant to available space, and produce a grand total

-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)

--help display this help and exit

--version
output version information and exit

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).

The SIZE argument is an integer and optional unit (example: 10K is 10*1024). Units are
K,M,G,T,P,E,Z,Y (powers of 1024) or KB,MB,... (powers of 1000). Binary prefixes can be used,
too: KiB=K, MiB=M, and so on.

FIELD_LIST is a comma-separated list of columns to be included. Valid field names are:
'source', 'fstype', 'itotal', 'iused', 'iavail', 'ipcent', 'size', 'used', 'avail', 'pcent',
'file' and 'target' (see info page).

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

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COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
<https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to
the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO
Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/df>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) df invocation'

GNU coreutils 8.32 January 2026 DF(1)