df -h without loop listing??

Dave Stevens geek at uniserve.com
Thu Jun 20 00:03:01 UTC 2019


On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 19:55:13 -0400 (EDT)
Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:

> At Thu, 20 Jun 2019 00:34:47 +0100 "Ubuntu user technical support,
> not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 04:19:22PM -0700, Dave Stevens wrote:  
> > > I don't see an option for df to omit these /dev/loopXX lines,
> > > currently 28 of them. Does anyone know how to do this?  
> > 
> > They're all of the "squashfs" type (as "df -T" will show), so "df -x
> > squashfs" will do it.  
> 
> In the more general case (/dev/loop mounts in general, eg ISO images
> or other sorts of images), piping throgh 'grep -v ...' will also work:
> 
> df -h | grep -v /dev/loop
> 
> Plumbing is a wonderful and powerful thing...
> 

yes, thanks, works! I asked because I remember vaguely seeing an
answer to a similar question that used an undocumented switch. I'd have
to read the code to see that I suppose, it wasn't on the man page.

D

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