bug#81360: Acknowledgement (df -P seems to use wrong format)
Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> Mon, 6 Jul 2026 15:56:56 +0100
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On 06/07/2026 02:09, Peter Edwards via GNU coreutils Bug Reports wrote: > Also, -P forces single-line output for filesystems with long mountpoint > paths but the default behavior can show the mountpoint on a second line. > This makes life hard for some shell scripts. Yes -P is required to guarantee that. Note however that's a gotcha that's not worth it, so we changed to always outputting a single line since 2010: https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/99679fff6 cheers, Padraig