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Linux Tips: The Misunderstood df Command

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Carla Schroder
Dec 5, 2012

I call df, or disk free, the misunderstood command because new Linux users often expect it to tell the sizes of directories and files. But it doesn’t do that– it’s for displaying useful information on filesystems. When you invoke it with no arguments, it shows free and used space on all mounted filesystems, their partitions, and mountpoints:
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