Re: Monitor file system free space
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 08:24:25AM -0500, mark@neidorff.com wrote:
> I had a problem with my (small) disk filling up and crashing my mail
> server. So, I wrote a simple perl script to take the output of 'df -h'
> and look for a % full that is greater than 97% and send me an e-mail if
> the % is greater than 97. I run the script daily from crontab. It works
> fine.
97% seems very high.
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 56G 7.4G 45G 15% /
tmpfs 1.5G 12K 1.5G 1% /lib/init/rw
udev 10M 940K 9.1M 10% /dev
tmpfs 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda9 56G 35G 18G 66% /home/osamu/Desktop/data
As you can see, I am putting some parts of home in different partition.
There I have ISO etc.
I think 80% is high enough. (This is just guts feeling....)
> Yesterday I downloaded an iso image (which brought the file system fill
> from 93% to 100% so that the mail server could not send me the e-mail
> warning. Is there another way to approach this problem (a different
> tool?)so that I can be notified BEFORE the file system is too full?
Anyway, please read basics:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/index.en.html
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch01.en.html
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch09.en.html#_data_storage_tips
Osamu
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