pythongh-83006: Document behavior of shutil.disk_usage for non-moun…

…ted filesystems on Unix (python#107031)
serhiy-storchaka · Jul 22, 2023 · 6e5f223 · 6e5f223
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@@ -399,6 +399,12 @@ Directory and files operations
    total, used and free space, in bytes. *path* may be a file or a
    directory.
 
+   .. note::
+
+      On Unix filesystems, *path* must point to a path within a **mounted**
+      filesystem partition. On those platforms, CPython doesn't attempt to
+      retrieve disk usage information from non-mounted filesystems.
+
    .. versionadded:: 3.3
 
    .. versionchanged:: 3.8

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-07-22-15-51-33.gh-issue-83006.21zaCz.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2023-07-22-15-51-33.gh-issue-83006.21zaCz.rst
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+Document behavior of :func:`shutil.disk_usage` for non-mounted filesystems
+on Unix.