df (Unix)

df (abbreviation for disk free) is a standard Unix command used to display the amount of available disk space for file systems on which the invoking user has appropriate read access. df is typically implemented using the statfs or statvfs system calls.

df first appeared in Version 1 AT&T UNIX.

Usage

The Single UNIX Specification specifications for df are:

df [-k] [-P|-t] [-del] [file...]

-k: Use 1024-byte units, instead of the default 512-byte units, when writing space figures.
-P: Use a standard, portable, output format
-t: If XSI compliant, show allocated space as well
-h: Display in KB, MB, or GB
file: Write the amount of free space of the file system containing the specified file

Most Unix and Unix-like operating systems add extra options. The BSD and GNU coreutils versions include -h, where free space is listed in human readable format, adding units with the appropriate SI prefix (e.g. 10MB), -i, listing inode usage, and -l, restricting display to only local filesystems. GNU df includes -T as well, listing filesystem type information, but the GNU df shows the sizes in 1K blocks by default.

Specification

The Single Unix Specification (SUS) specifies by default space is reported in blocks of 512 bytes, and that at a minimum, the file system names and the amount of free space.

The use of 512-byte units is historical practice and maintains compatibility with ls and other utilities. This does not mandate that the file system itself be based on 512-byte blocks. The -k option was added as a compromise measure. It was agreed by the standard developers that 512 bytes was the best default unit because of its complete historical consistency on System V (versus the mixed 512/1024-byte usage on BSD systems), and that a -k option to switch to 1024-byte units was a good compromise. Users who prefer the more logical 1024-byte quantity can easily alias df to df -k without breaking many historical scripts relying on the 512-byte units.

The output with -P shall consist of one line of information for each specified file system. These lines shall be formatted as follows:

<fs name> <total space> <space used> <space free> <percentage used> <fs root>

In the following list, all quantities expressed in 512-byte units (1024-byte when -k is specified) shall be rounded up to the next higher unit. The fields are:

<fs name>

The name of the file system, in an implementation-defined format.

<total space>

The total size of the file system in 512-byte units. The exact meaning of this figure is implementation-defined, but should include <space used>, <space free>, plus any space reserved by the system not normally available to a user.

<space used>

The total amount of space allocated to existing files in the file system, in 512-byte units.

<space free>

The total amount of space available within the file system for the creation of new files by unprivileged users, in 512-byte units. When this figure is less than or equal to zero, it shall not be possible to create any new files on the file system without first deleting others, unless the process has appropriate privileges. The figure written may be less than zero.

<percentage used>

The percentage of the normally available space that is currently allocated to all files on the file system. This shall be calculated using the fraction:

<space used>/(<space used> + <space free>)

expressed as a percentage. This percentage may be greater than 100 if <space free> is less than zero. The percentage value shall be expressed as a positive integer, with any fractional result causing it to be rounded to the next highest integer.

<fs root>

The directory below which the file system hierarchy appear

Example

The following is an example of the output of the df command.

$ df
Filesystem    1024-blocks      Free %Used    Iused %Iused Mounted on
/dev/hd4            32768     16016   52%     2271    14% /
/dev/hd2          4587520   1889420   59%    37791     4% /usr
/dev/hd9var         65536     12032   82%      518     4% /var
/dev/hd3           819200    637832   23%     1829     1% /tmp
/dev/hd1           524288    395848   25%      421     1% /home
/proc                   -         -    -         -     -  /proc
/dev/hd10opt        65536     26004   61%      654     4% /opt

External links

df: report free disk space – Commands & Utilities Reference, The Single UNIX® Specification, Issue 7 from The Open Group

Manual pages

df — manual page from GNU coreutils
df(1): display free disk space – OpenBSD General Commands Manual
The df Command - by The Linux Information Project (LINFO)

Unix command-line interface programs and shell builtins

File system	cat chmod chown chgrp cksum cmp cp dd du df file fsck fuser ln ls mkdir mount mv pax pwd rm rmdir split tee touch type umask

Processes	at bg chroot cron fg kill killall nice pgrep pkill ps pstree time top

User environment	clear env exit finger history logname mesg passwd su sudo uptime talk tput uname w wall who whoami write

Text processing	awk banner basename comm csplit cut diff dirname ed ex fmt fold head iconv join less more nl paste printf sed sort spell strings tail tr uniq vi wc xargs yes

Shell builtins	alias cd echo test unset wait

Networking	dig host ifconfig inetd netcat netstat nslookup ping rdate rlogin route ssh traceroute

Searching	find grep locate whatis whereis

Documentation	apropos help man

Miscellaneous	bc dc cal expr lp od sleep true and false

List of Unix commands

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