On 2019/10/11 12:56, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 10/11/19 11:20 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > >> if you want to exclude nested file systems like that, >> you could try: >> alias df='df -x squashfs' >> > On my Fedora 30 workstation that option doesn't make any difference. > ------ I'd suggest adjusting the exclusion list to the file systems you want to exclude.
I.e. alias df='df -x tmpfs -x devtmpfs -x loop' That works on my system as well as: alias df='df -t xfs' Certainly prompting the user for wanted defaults and adding them to their .shellrc could be part of an initial run of *some* utilities that wouldn't cause hard-coded side-effects.