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hi, say i have the following directory structure a/b/c/d...

can i do df -kt /a/b/c/d and the output will gives me the total space of the directory space in d? or the output will just be the total space of the parent directory a.

hope its clear..

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Have you tried it?

I did on a FreeBSD machine with no luck. Although I'm not sure if I understood the question.

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I *think* yls177 meant "du", not "df".

If so, then yes, it will the space used by all the files in the d subdirectory. It will not include other stuff in /a.

"df" on the other will report on whatever filesystem d resides in. That might be /a or /a/b
or /a/b/c or even /a/b/c/d. It would depend on the mount table.

But those options don't make sense with any version of df that I know of.

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