[3.11] gh-83006: Document behavior of `shutil.disk_usage` for non-mounted filesystems...

(cherry picked from commit 6e5f2235f3754307292c7d8d3698958136b5e311)

Co-authored-by: Matthieu Caneill <matthieucan@users.noreply.github.com>

diff --git a/Doc/library/shutil.rst b/Doc/library/shutil.rst
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--- a/Doc/library/shutil.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/shutil.rst
@@ -393,6 +393,12 @@ 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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@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Document behavior of :func:`shutil.disk_usage` for non-mounted filesystems
+on Unix.