On Sun, 2026-07-05 at 00:07 -0700, Collin Funk wrote:
> I lean towards keeping the current behavior because -T isn't really a
> distinct output mode that should override (or be overridden) by -P.
> Note
> the difference in the headers here:
> 
>     $ df -T | head -n 1
>     Filesystem     Type      1K-blocks      Used Available Use%
> Mounted on
>     $ df -P -T | head -n 1
>     Filesystem     Type     1024-blocks      Used Available Capacity
> Mounted on
> 
> There are also some differences when using -P, as described in the
> manual [1], that one might want combined with the type. Therefore,
> disallowing it would probably not be nice.


Hmm still... the current behaviour seems also sub-optimal.

-P is literally described as:
  "use the POSIX output format"
but then it doesn't, or at least not always.

I guess my main point here is that the option is specifically meant to
get the portable format.


Anyway,... just my opinion :-D


Cheers,
Chris.



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