On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 7:11 PM, Wes <[email protected]> wrote:
> Just wondering,
>
> Why is this command called 'df' when it reports total space and used
> space but not free space? Wouldn't this be more aptly named 'btrfs
> filesystem du' ?
> It's been my understanding that traditionally 'df' has been to display
> free space remaining (as well as total available and used, but with
> the focus being on free space. The 'df' man page indicates this as
> well.)
I don't know much of what goes on inside BtrFS, but I like to point
out that btrfs fi df doesn't actually report total space on the disk,
only the total space currently allocated.
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