On 06/07/2026 02:09, Peter Edwards via GNU coreutils Bug Reports wrote:
Also, -P forces single-line output for filesystems with long mountpoint paths but the default behavior can show the mountpoint on a second line. This makes life hard for some shell scripts.
Yes -P is required to guarantee that. Note however that's a gotcha that's not worth it, so we changed to always outputting a single line since 2010: https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/99679fff6 cheers, Padraig
