On 08/20/2014 04:51 PM, Fridolin Pokorny wrote:
Proposing requested patch.

Thanks for the patch.
I wrapped it into a complete commit including a commit message,
and fixed the double-space-after-dot issues.
Committing the attached soon.

Thanks and have a nice day,
Berny
>From 282c6a840edc5b37ef8feaee4f6a67df9b331580 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fridolin Pokorny <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 08:37:08 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] doc: clarify that duplicate NFS mounts are skipped by df

* doc/coreutils.texi (df invocation): Add a sentence that eliding
duplicate entries for the same file system is not limited to bind
mounts, but also happens for remote file systems like NFS.
---
 doc/coreutils.texi | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 7c86719..33522ab 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -11171,7 +11171,8 @@ Non-integer quantities are rounded up to the next higher unit.
 For bind mounts and without arguments, @command{df} only outputs the statistics
 for that device with the shortest mount point name in the list of file systems
 (@var{mtab}), i.e., it hides duplicate entries, unless the @option{-a} option is
-specified.
+specified.  Remote file systems, such as NFS, are treated the same way as local
+ones: only one mount entry per remote file system is shown by default.
 
 With the same logic, @command{df} elides a mount entry of a dummy pseudo device
 if there is another mount entry of a real block device for that mount point with
-- 
1.8.4.2

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