bug#81360: Acknowledgement (df -P seems to use wrong format)

Pádraig Brady <[email protected]> Mon, 6 Jul 2026 15:56:56 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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