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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

df

Example usage of df

Original author(s) Ken Thompson,

Dennis Ritchie

(AT&T Bell Laboratories)

 Developer(s) Various open-source and commercial developers

Initial release 3 November 1971; 52 years ago

Operating system Unix, Unix-like

Platform Cross-platform

Type Command

License coreutils: GPLv3+

df (abbreviation for disk free) is a standard Unix command used to display the amount
of available disk space for file systems on which the invoking user has appropriate read
access. df is typically implemented using the statfs or statvfs system calls.
History[edit]
df for Unix-like systems is part of the X/Open Portability Guide since issue 2 of 1987. It
was inherited into the first version of POSIX and the Single Unix Specification.[1] It first
appeared in Version 1 AT&T Unix.[2]
The version of df bundled in GNU coreutils was written by Torbjorn Granlund, David
MacKenzie, and Paul Eggert.[3] The command is available as a separate package
for Microsoft Windows as part of the UnxUtils collection of native Win32 ports of
common GNU Unix-like utilities.[4]