TIL: Filtering The df Command
I've used the df command thousands of times to check how full disks are. What I find annoying is that 99.999% of the
time I'm only interested in the root partition, but I have to scan through a bunch of other loopback and tmpfs devices
to find it #firstWorldProblems.
What I discovered is that you can pass a path to filter on: df -h /:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/vgubuntu-root 914G 463G 405G 54% /
vs
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 16G 0 16G 0% /dev tmpfs 3.2G 2.6M 3.2G 1% /run /dev/mapper/vgubuntu-root 914G 463G 405G 54% / tmpfs 16G 747M 15G 5% /dev/shm tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock tmpfs 16G 0 16G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/loop1 128K 128K 0 100% /snap/bare/5 /dev/loop4 64M 64M 0 100% /snap/core20/2599 /dev/loop8 68M 68M 0 100% /snap/cups/1100 /dev/loop16 92M 92M 0 100% /snap/gtk-common-themes/1535 /dev/loop18 219M 219M 0 100% /snap/gnome-3-34-1804/90 /dev/loop17 13M 13M 0 100% /snap/snap-store/1216 /dev/loop13 165M 165M 0 100% /snap/gnome-3-28-1804/198 /dev/loop15 165M 165M 0 100% /snap/gnome-3-28-1804/194 /dev/loop14 350M 350M 0 100% /snap/gnome-3-38-2004/140 /dev/loop12 13M 13M 0 100% /snap/snap-store/1113 /dev/loop19 82M 82M 0 100% /snap/gtk-common-themes/1534 /dev/loop22 517M 517M 0 100% /snap/gnome-42-2204/202 /dev/loop21 219M 219M 0 100% /snap/gnome-3-34-1804/93 /dev/loop23 51M 51M 0 100% /snap/snapd/25202 /dev/loop24 350M 350M 0 100% /snap/gnome-3-38-2004/143 /dev/nvme0n1p2 704M 210M 443M 33% /boot /dev/nvme0n1p1 511M 6.1M 505M 2% /boot/efi tmpfs 3.2G 20K 3.2G 1% /run/user/125 tmpfs 3.2G 208K 3.2G 1% /run/user/1000 /dev/loop25 56M 56M 0 100% /snap/core18/2947 /dev/loop5 74M 74M 0 100% /snap/core22/2133 /dev/loop2 56M 56M 0 100% /snap/core18/2952 /dev/loop3 517M 517M 0 100% /snap/gnome-42-2204/226 /dev/loop0 64M 64M 0 100% /snap/core20/2669 /dev/loop6 48M 48M 0 100% /snap/cups/1112 /dev/loop10 186M 186M 0 100% /snap/chromium/3259 /dev/loop9 186M 186M 0 100% /snap/chromium/3265 /dev/loop11 74M 74M 0 100% /snap/core22/2139 /dev/loop7 51M 51M 0 100% /snap/snapd/25577