From 837bf406df08ff7e0d3a9b63060c61012fdbb723 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fridolin Pokorny Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 11:45:54 +0200 Subject: doc: clarify that duplicate NFS mounts are skipped by df * doc/coreutils.texi (df invocation): Add a sentence that eliding duplicate entries for the same file system is not limited to bind mounts, but also happens for remote file systems like NFS. --- doc/coreutils.texi | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 7c8671971..47d698e90 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -11171,7 +11171,8 @@ Non-integer quantities are rounded up to the next higher unit. For bind mounts and without arguments, @command{df} only outputs the statistics for that device with the shortest mount point name in the list of file systems (@var{mtab}), i.e., it hides duplicate entries, unless the @option{-a} option is -specified. +specified. Remote file systems, such as NFS, are treated the same way as local +ones; only one mount entry per remote file system is shown by default. With the same logic, @command{df} elides a mount entry of a dummy pseudo device if there is another mount entry of a real block device for that mount point with -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf