=head1 NAME

virt-df - Display free space on virtual filesystems

=head1 SYNOPSIS

All guests:

 virt-df [--options]

Single guest:

 virt-df [--options] -d domname

 virt-df [--options] -a disk.img [-a disk.img ...]

Old style:

 virt-df [--options] domname

 virt-df [--options] disk.img [disk.img ...]

=head1 DESCRIPTION

C<virt-df> is a command line tool to display free space on virtual
machine filesystems.  Unlike other tools, it doesn't just display the
size of disk allocated to a virtual machine, but can look inside disk
images to see how much space is really being used.

If used without any I<-a> or I<-d> arguments, C<virt-df> checks with
libvirt to get a list of all active and inactive guests, and performs
a C<df>-type operation on each one in turn, printing out the results.

If any I<-a> or I<-d> arguments are specified, C<virt-df> performs a
C<df>-type operation on either the single named libvirt domain, or on
the disk image(s) listed on the command line (which must all belong to
a single VM).  B<In this mode (with arguments), C<virt-df> will only
work for a single guest>.  If you want to run on multiple guests, then
you have to invoke C<virt-df> multiple times.

Use the I<--csv> option to get a format which can be easily parsed by
other programs.  Other options are similar to the standard L<df(1)>
command.

=head1 EXAMPLES

Show disk usage for a single libvirt guest called C<F14x64>.  Make the
output human-readable:

 # virt-df -d F14x64 -h
 Filesystem                       Size     Used  Available  Use%
 F14x64:/dev/sda1                 484M      66M       393M   14%
 F14x64:/dev/vg_f13x64/lv_root    7.4G     3.4G       4.0G   46%

Show disk usage for a disk image file called F<test.img>:

 $ virt-df -a test1.img
 Filesystem                  1K-blocks     Used  Available  Use%
 test1.img:/dev/sda1             99099     1551      92432    2%

If a single guest has multiple disks, use the I<-a> option repeatedly.
A plus sign (C<+>) is displayed for each additional disk.  B<Note: Do
not do this with unrelated guest disks.>

 $ virt-df -a Win7x32TwoDisks-a -a Win7x32TwoDisks-b 
 Filesystem                   1K-blocks    Used  Available  Use%
 Win7x32TwoDisks-a+:/dev/sda1    102396   24712      77684   25%
 Win7x32TwoDisks-a+:/dev/sda2  12478460 7403416    5075044   60%
 Win7x32TwoDisks-a+:/dev/sdb1    521212   55728     465484   11%

=head1 OPTIONS

=over 4

=item B<--help>

Display brief help.

=item B<-a> FILE

=item B<--add> FILE

Add C<FILE> which should be a disk image from a virtual machine.  If
the virtual machine has multiple block devices, you must supply all of
them with separate I<-a> options.

The format of the disk image is auto-detected.  To override this and
force a particular format use the I<--format=..> option.

=item B<-a> URI

=item B<--add> URI

Add a remote disk.  See L<guestfish(1)/ADDING REMOTE STORAGE>.

__INCLUDE:blocksize-option.pod__

=item B<-c> URI

=item B<--connect> URI

If using libvirt, connect to the given I<URI>.  If omitted, then we
connect to the default libvirt hypervisor.

If you specify guest block devices directly (I<-a>), then libvirt is
not used at all.

=item B<--csv>

Write out the results in CSV format (comma-separated values).  This
format can be imported easily into databases and spreadsheets, but
read L</NOTE ABOUT CSV FORMAT> below.

=item B<-d> guest

=item B<--domain> guest

Add all the disks from the named libvirt guest.  Domain UUIDs can be
used instead of names.

=item B<--format=raw|qcow2|..>

=item B<--format>

The default for the I<-a> option is to auto-detect the format of the
disk image.  Using this forces the disk format for I<-a> options which
follow on the command line.  Using I<--format> with no argument
switches back to auto-detection for subsequent I<-a> options.

For example:

 virt-df --format=raw -a disk.img

forces raw format (no auto-detection) for F<disk.img>.

 virt-df --format=raw -a disk.img --format -a another.img

forces raw format (no auto-detection) for F<disk.img> and reverts to
auto-detection for F<another.img>.

If you have untrusted raw-format guest disk images, you should use
this option to specify the disk format.  This avoids a possible
security problem with malicious guests (CVE-2010-3851).

=item B<-h>

=item B<--human-readable>

Print sizes in human-readable format.

You are not allowed to use I<-h> and I<--csv> at the same time.

=item B<-i>

=item B<--inodes>

Print inodes instead of blocks.

=item B<--one-per-guest>

Since libguestfs 1.22, this is the default.  This option does nothing
and is left here for backwards compatibility with older scripts.

=item B<-P> nr_threads

Since libguestfs 1.22, virt-df is multithreaded and examines guests in
parallel.  By default the number of threads to use is chosen based on
the amount of free memory available at the time that virt-df is
started.  You can force virt-df to use at most C<nr_threads> by using
the I<-P> option.

Note that I<-P 0> means to autodetect, and I<-P 1> means to use a
single thread.

=item B<--uuid>

Print UUIDs instead of names.  This is useful for following
a guest even when the guest is migrated or renamed, or when
two guests happen to have the same name.

Note that only domains that we fetch from libvirt come with UUIDs.
For disk images, we still print the disk image name even when
this option is specified.

=item B<-v>

=item B<--verbose>

Enable verbose messages for debugging.

=item B<-V>

=item B<--version>

Display version number and exit.

=item B<-x>

Enable tracing of libguestfs API calls.

=back

=head1 STATVFS NUMBERS

C<virt-df> (and L<df(1)>) get information by issuing a L<statvfs(3)>
system call.  You can get the same information directly, either from
the host (using libguestfs) or inside the guest:

=over 4

=item From the host

Run this command:

 guestfish --ro -d GuestName -i statvfs /

(change F</> to see stats for other filesystems).

=item From inside the guest

Run this command:

 python -c 'import os; s = os.statvfs ("/"); print s'

(change F</> to see stats for other filesystems).

=back

=head1 NOTE ABOUT CSV FORMAT

Comma-separated values (CSV) is a deceptive format.  It I<seems> like
it should be easy to parse, but it is definitely not easy to parse.

Myth: Just split fields at commas.  Reality: This does I<not> work
reliably.  This example has two columns:

 "foo,bar",baz

Myth: Read the file one line at a time.  Reality: This does I<not>
work reliably.  This example has one row:

 "foo
 bar",baz

For shell scripts, use C<csvtool> (L<https://github.com/Chris00/ocaml-csv>
also packaged in major Linux distributions).

For other languages, use a CSV processing library (eg. C<Text::CSV>
for Perl or Python’s built-in csv library).

Most spreadsheets and databases can import CSV directly.

=head1 EXIT STATUS

This program returns 0 if successful, or non-zero if there was an
error.

=head1 SEE ALSO

L<df(1)>,
L<guestfs(3)>,
L<guestfish(1)>,
L<virt-drivers(1)>,
L<virt-filesystems(1)>,
L<http://libguestfs.org/>.

=head1 AUTHOR

Richard W.M. Jones L<http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/>

=head1 COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2009-2025 Red Hat Inc.
