On Sun, Aug 24, 2025 at 05:01:31PM -0700, Collin Funk wrote:

> > 2) needs to be able to exclude or "include only" certain strings in the 
> > output using regex patterns.  Maybe -v, like egrep has, or -x for "eXclude" 
> > (Apple's version doesn't)
> 
> The GNU version of 'df' already has the -x option to exclude file system
> types. I can exclude apfs file systems like so (which is all of them on
> this machine):
> 
>     $ ./src/df -x apfs
>     df: no file systems processed
> 
> For other fields I think that 'df | grep -v text' works fine.

I did not know about -x so tried it:

$ df -x udev

It shows (amongst others):

udev                         16369064          0   16369064   0% /dev

I tried and it excludes ext4 & tmpfs.

I am running Debian trixie.

Am I missing something or should I file a bug report ?

Regards

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