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| author | Bernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de> | 2013-12-06 00:59:36 +0100 |
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| committer | Bernhard Voelker <mail@bernhard-voelker.de> | 2013-12-06 00:59:36 +0100 |
| commit | 34582a1aedae0d7002b76a64a14dc3143198ced0 (patch) | |
| tree | e8ce5af8bc7a2d7a3c01875e36c1a929fefdcfde /doc | |
| parent | 37e001d20930bacf188ab9725d063e205b195e34 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-34582a1aedae0d7002b76a64a14dc3143198ced0.tar.xz | |
doc: clarify that df now generally processes special files correctly
Since v8.21-172-g33660b4, df not only treats symbolic link arguments
differently, as stated there, but now generally processes special file
arguments in a non-canonicalized form correctly:
$ cd /dev && df-old sdb
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs 1014572 48 1014524 1% /dev
$ cd /dev && df-new sdb
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb 10190136 6039532 3609932 63% /home
Document df's new behavior.
* doc/coreutils.texi (df invocation): In the paragraph describing
df's behavior regarding special file arguments, relax the condition
for such special files from "... is an absolute name of ..." to
"... resolves to ...".
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention the new behavior also here.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index c818a1e20..74d502552 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -11108,7 +11108,7 @@ not shown per default when already the real root device has been mounted. @cindex disk device file @cindex device file, disk -If an argument @var{file} is an absolute name of a disk device node containing +If an argument @var{file} resolves to a special file containing a mounted file system, @command{df} shows the space available on that file system rather than on the file system containing the device node. GNU @command{df} does not attempt to determine the disk usage |