Subject: Re: bug#14727: minor bug in DF(1) manpage and techinfo page
From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
To: "D. Hugh Redelmeier" <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 12:41:54 +0100
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

On 06/26/2013 10:39 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> The man page for DF says:
> 
>     If an argument is the absolute file name of a disk device node
>     containing a mounted file system, df shows the space available on
>     that file system rather than on the file system containing the
>     device node (which is always the root file system).
> 
> Device nodes are not always on the root file system.  In particular,
> on my Fedora 18 system, mount shows:
> 
>   devtmpfs on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,seclabel,size=3038532k,nr_inodes=759633,mode=755)
> 
> Just removing the parenthetical comment fixes this.
> 
> Interestingly, the techinfo page is slightly different but still wrong:
> 
>     If an argument FILE is a disk device file containing a mounted
>     file system, `df' shows the space available on that file system
>     rather than on the file system containing the device node (i.e.,
>     the root file system).
> 
> Another point about these sentences:
> 
> Does the pathname have to be absolute?  Experiments seem to indicate
> that it does.  So the man page is more correct than the techinfo page.

Pushed:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=1b90421

thanks!
Pádraig.