Re: Incorrect behavior in df -P

[James Youngman]

On 6/25/06, Toby Murray <address@hidden> wrote:
> The -P option uses a block size of 1024 when it should be using 512
> unless the block size is explicitly given. From the man page:
>
>       -P     Output  in  six  columns, with heading `Filesystem N-blocks Used
>               Available Capacity Mounted on' (with N=512, but N=1024 when  the
>               -k option is given).
>
> But when you run "df -P" the output says:
> Filesystem         1024-blocks      Used Available Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/hda3             76069416  37835316  38234100      50% /
>
> In BSD it correctly uses a 512 block size.

As per the manpage and Info documentation, just use

POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 df  -P

James.