11 df Command Examples in Linux
Abstract: /dev/mapper/vg00-home ext4 15G 41M 14G 1% /home/dev/mapper/vg00-sap ext3 15G 37M 14G 1% /sap
df (disk free) command is used to display disk usage of the file system. By default df command shows the file system usage in 1K blocks for all the current mounted file system, if you want to display the output of df command in human readable format , use -h option like 「df -h」.
In this post we will discuss 11 different examples of ‘df‘ command in Linux
Basic Syntax of df command in Linux
# df {options} {mount_point_of_filesystem}
Options used in df command :
Sample Output of df :
[[email protected] ~]# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg00-root 17003304 804668 15311852 5% / devtmpfs 771876 0 771876 0% /dev tmpfs 777928 0 777928 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 777928 8532 769396 2% /run tmpfs 777928 0 777928 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/mapper/vg00-home 14987616 41000 14162232 1% /home /dev/sda1 487652 62593 395363 14% /boot /dev/mapper/vg00-var 9948012 48692 9370936 1% /var /dev/mapper/vg00-sap 14987656 37636 14165636 1% /sap [[email protected] ~]#Example 1) List disk usage of all the file system using ‘-a’
when we use ‘-a’ option in df command , it will display disk usage of all the file systems.
[[email protected] ~]# df -a Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on rootfs 17003304 804668 15311852 5% / proc 0 0 0 - /proc sysfs 0 0 0 - /sys devtmpfs 771876 0 771876 0% /dev securityfs 0 0 0 - /sys/kernel/security tmpfs 777928 0 777928 0% /dev/shm devpts 0 0 0 - /dev/pts tmpfs 777928 8532 769396 2% /run tmpfs 777928 0 777928 0% /sys/fs/cgroup cgroup 0 0 0 - /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd pstore 0 0 0 - /sys/fs/pstore cgroup 0 0 0 - /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset cgroup 0 0 0 - /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct cgroup 0 0 0 - /sys/fs/cgroup/memory cgroup 0 0 0 - /sys/fs/cgroup/devices cgroup 0 0 0 - /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer cgroup 0 0 0 - /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls cgroup 0 0 0 - /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio cgroup 0 0 0 - /sys/fs/cgroup/perf_event cgroup 0 0 0 - /sys/fs/cgroup/hugetlb configfs 0 0 0 - /sys/kernel/config /dev/mapper/vg00-root 17003304 804668 15311852 5% / selinuxfs 0 0 0 - /sys/fs/selinux systemd-1 0 0 0 - /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc debugfs 0 0 0 - /sys/kernel/debug hugetlbfs 0 0 0 - /dev/hugepages mqueue 0 0 0 - /dev/mqueue /dev/mapper/vg00-home 14987616 41000 14162232 1% /home /dev/sda1 487652 62593 395363 14% /boot /dev/mapper/vg00-var 9948012 48692 9370936 1% /var /dev/mapper/vg00-sap 14987656 37636 14165636 1% /sap [[email protected] ~]#Example 2) Display the output of df command in human readable format.
Using ‘-h’ option in df command , output can be displayed in human readable format ( e.g 5K , 500M & 5G )
[[email protected] ~]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg00-root 17G 786M 15G 5% / devtmpfs 754M 0 754M 0% /dev tmpfs 760M 0 760M 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 760M 8.4M 752M 2% /run tmpfs 760M 0 760M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/mapper/vg00-home 15G 41M 14G 1% /home /dev/sda1 477M 62M 387M 14% /boot /dev/mapper/vg00-var 9.5G 48M 9.0G 1% /var /dev/mapper/vg00-sap 15G 37M 14G 1% /sap [[email protected] ~]#Example 3) Display Space usage of particular file system
Suppose we want to print space usage of /sap file system,
[[email protected] ~]# df -h /sap/ Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg00-sap 15G 37M 14G 1% /sap [[email protected] ~]#Example 4) Print file system type of all mounted file systems
‘-T’ is used in df command to display the file system type in the output.
[[email protected] ~]# df -T Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg00-root ext4 17003304 804668 15311852 5% / devtmpfs devtmpfs 771876 0 771876 0% /dev tmpfs tmpfs 777928 0 777928 0% /dev/shm tmpfs tmpfs 777928 8532 769396 2% /run tmpfs tmpfs 777928 0 777928 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/mapper/vg00-home ext4 14987616 41000 14162232 1% /home /dev/sda1 ext3 487652 62593 395363 14% /boot /dev/mapper/vg00-var ext3 9948012 48696 9370932 1% /var /dev/mapper/vg00-sap ext3 14987656 37636 14165636 1% /sap [[email protected] ~]#Example 5) Print disk usage of file systems in block-size.
[[email protected] ~]# df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg00-root 17003304 804668 15311852 5% / devtmpfs 771876 0 771876 0% /dev tmpfs 777928 0 777928 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 777928 8532 769396 2% /run tmpfs 777928 0 777928 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/mapper/vg00-home 14987616 41000 14162232 1% /home /dev/sda1 487652 62593 395363 14% /boot /dev/mapper/vg00-var 9948012 48696 9370932 1% /var /dev/mapper/vg00-sap 14987656 37636 14165636 1% /sap [[email protected] ~]#Example 6) Display inodes information of file system.
‘-i’ option in df command is used to display inode information of the file system
inodes info of all the file system :
[[email protected] ~]# df -i Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg00-root 1089536 22031 1067505 3% / devtmpfs 192969 357 192612 1% /dev tmpfs 194482 1 194481 1% /dev/shm tmpfs 194482 420 194062 1% /run tmpfs 194482 13 194469 1% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/mapper/vg00-home 960992 15 960977 1% /home /dev/sda1 128016 337 127679 1% /boot /dev/mapper/vg00-var 640848 1235 639613 1% /var /dev/mapper/vg00-sap 960992 11 960981 1% /sap [[email protected] ~]#
inodes info of particular file system :
[[email protected] ~]# df -i /sap/ Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg00-sap 960992 11 960981 1% /sap [[email protected] ~]#Example 7) Print grand total space usage of all file system.
‘–total‘ option in df command is used to display the grand total of disk usage of all the file system.
[[email protected] ~]# df -h --total Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg00-root 17G 786M 15G 5% / devtmpfs 754M 0 754M 0% /dev tmpfs 760M 0 760M 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 760M 8.4M 752M 2% /run tmpfs 760M 0 760M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/mapper/vg00-home 15G 41M 14G 1% /home /dev/sda1 477M 62M 387M 14% /boot /dev/mapper/vg00-var 9.5G 48M 9.0G 1% /var /dev/mapper/vg00-sap 15G 37M 14G 1% /sap total 58G 980M 54G 2% - [[email protected] ~]#Example 8) Print only Local file system space usage info.
Suppose network file system also mounted on linux box and but we want to display local file system information only, this can be achieved by using ‘-l‘ option in df command.
Limiting to local file system :
[[email protected] ~]# df -Thl Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg00-root ext4 17G 791M 15G 6% / devtmpfs devtmpfs 754M 0 754M 0% /dev tmpfs tmpfs 760M 0 760M 0% /dev/shm tmpfs tmpfs 760M 8.4M 752M 2% /run tmpfs tmpfs 760M 0 760M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/mapper/vg00-home ext4 15G 41M 14G 1% /home /dev/sda1 ext3 477M 62M 387M 14% /boot /dev/mapper/vg00-var ext3 9.5G 105M 8.9G 2% /var /dev/mapper/vg00-sap ext3 15G 37M 14G 1% /sap [[email protected] ~]#Example 9) Print Disk Space information of particular file system type.
‘-t’ option in df command is used to print information of particular file system type, after ‘-t’ specify the file system type, example is shown below :
for ext4 :
[[email protected] ~]# df -t ext4 Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg00-root 17003304 809492 15307028 6% / /dev/mapper/vg00-home 14987616 41000 14162232 1% /home [[email protected] ~]#
for nfs4 :
[[email protected] ~]# df -t nfs4 Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on 192.168.1.5:/opensuse 301545472 266833920 19371008 94% /data [[email protected] ~]#Example 10) Exclude Particular file system type using ‘-x’ option
「-x or –exclude-type」 is used to exclude the certain file system type in the output of df command.
Let suppose we want to print all the file systems excluding ext3 file system.
[[email protected] ~]# df -x ext3 Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vg00-root 17003304 809492 15307028 6% / devtmpfs 771876 0 771876 0% /dev tmpfs 777928 0 777928 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 777928 8540 769388 2% /run tmpfs 777928 0 777928 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/mapper/vg00-home 14987616 41000 14162232 1% /home 192.168.1.5:/opensuse 301545472 266834944 19369984 94% /data [[email protected] ~]#Example 11) Print only certain fields in output of df command.
‘–output={field_name1,field_name2….}‘ option is used to display the certain fields in df command output.
Valid field names are: ‘source’, ‘fstype’, ‘itotal’, ‘iused’, ‘iavail’, ‘ipcent’, ‘size’, ‘used’, ‘avail’, ‘pcent’ and ‘target’
[[email protected] ~]# df --output=fstype,size,iused Type 1K-blocks IUsed ext4 17003304 22275 devtmpfs 771876 357 tmpfs 777928 1 tmpfs 777928 423 tmpfs 777928 13 ext4 14987616 15 ext3 487652 337 ext3 9948012 1373 ext3 14987656 11 nfs4 301545472 451099 [[email protected] ~]#Also Read : 8 Stat Command Examples in Linux
