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bug#14727: minor bug in DF(1) manpage and techinfo page
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Pádraig Brady |
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bug#14727: minor bug in DF(1) manpage and techinfo page |
Date: |
Thu, 27 Jun 2013 12:41:54 +0100 |
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On 06/26/2013 10:39 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> The man page for DF says:
>
> If an argument is the absolute file name of a disk 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 (which is always the root file system).
>
> Device nodes are not always on the root file system. In particular,
> on my Fedora 18 system, mount shows:
>
> devtmpfs on /dev type devtmpfs
> (rw,nosuid,seclabel,size=3038532k,nr_inodes=759633,mode=755)
>
> Just removing the parenthetical comment fixes this.
>
> Interestingly, the techinfo page is slightly different but still wrong:
>
> If an argument FILE is a disk device file containing a mounted
> file system, `df' shows the space available on that file system
> rather than on the file system containing the device node (i.e.,
> the root file system).
>
> Another point about these sentences:
>
> Does the pathname have to be absolute? Experiments seem to indicate
> that it does. So the man page is more correct than the techinfo page.
Pushed:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=1b90421
thanks!
Pádraig.