On 12/05/2013 01:21 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: > On 12/04/2013 02:25 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: >> Pushed. > > Hi Padraig, > > oops, there was another user-visible change with v8.21-172-g33660b4: > > df now also works better with relative paths to the source > device, e.g.: > > $ cd /dev/ && df-8.21 sdb > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > devtmpfs 1014572 48 1014524 1% /dev > > $ cd /dev/ && df-new sdb > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/sdb 10190136 6039532 3609932 63% /home > > This seems to be valid for POSIX compliance, but contradicts > our TEXI documentation. I'd suggest something like this: > > - If an argument FILE is an absolute name of a disk device node > + If an argument FILE resolves to a special file
Good catch. > containing a mounted file system, `df' shows the space available on that > file system rather than on the file system containing the device node. > > And as this was a user-visible change, it should probably > be mentioned in the NEWS file. WDYT? We might as well adjust the second df item in NEWS to mention that case too. thanks, Pádraig.
