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DF(1)                                                                                                     User Commands                                                                                                    DF(1)

NAME
       df - report file system space usage

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

DESCRIPTION
       This  manual  page  documents  the  GNU  version of df.  df displays the amount of 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.  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 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.  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 knowledge of file system structures.

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

       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

Title: df - Report File System Space Usage
Summary
The `df` command displays the amount of available space on file systems. It shows space usage for specified files or all mounted file systems. The output is in 1K blocks by default, or 512-byte blocks if POSIXLY_CORRECT is set. Options include showing all file systems, scaling sizes, human-readable output, inode information, and limiting to local file systems. It does not show space on unmounted file systems.