Mac OS X in a Nutshell

Name

df

Synopsis

df [options] [name]

Report the number of free disk blocks and inodes available on all mounted filesystems or on the given name. (Unmounted filesystems are checked with -F.) name can be a device name (e.g., /dev/disk0s9), the directory name of a mount point (e.g., /Volumes/Drive2), a directory name, or a remote filesystem name (e.g., an NFS filesystem). Besides the options listed, there are additional options specific to different filesystem types or df modules.

Options

-i

Report free, used, and percent-used inodes.

-k

Print sizes in kilobytes.

-l

Show local filesystems only.

-n

Print only the filesystem type name; with no other arguments, -n lists the types for all mounted filesystems.

-t type1 [, type2 , ... ]

Show only filesystem types specified.