bug#37702: Suggestion for 'df' utility

[Pádraig Brady]

On 11/10/2019 08:55, John Pye wrote:
> Hi there
>
> I got this email address from the 'df' man page. Hope it's still active
> and the right place for feedback.
>
> With recent changes to Ubuntu and the increasing use of 'snap' packaging
> for all sorts of things, the 'df' utility output is now quite jumbled
> and messy. My fairly normal system now has 17 /dev/loopNN mounts for
> various different software packages. I would rather not see these things
> by default. Or at least, I would like to have a convenient
> single-character flag that allows me to suppress those mounts from my
> 'df' output.
>
> One useful approach would be a flag that suppresses read-only
> filesystems. Another approach would be to suppress read-only filesystems
> that have no free space. Perhaps there are other good approaches too.
>
> I don't know if this issue is also relevant for 'docker' or not.

Well if you want to exclude nested file systems like that,
you could try:

  alias df='df -x squashfs'

cheers,
Pádraig