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Re: "Disk Full" warning



On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Eric Gaumer wrote:

> Nagios is cool but probably overkill for monitoring your own drive. Have 
> you thought about giving yourself a quota so you *can't* fill up the 
> drive? Quota also sends a warning when you are approaching your limit. 
> Set your limit to a _near_ full drive and then you'll know when you're 
> close.

Yeah thats a good idea.  The quotawarn package in Debian will send out 
warnings when a user goes over the soft limit too.

Rob

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