Re: "Disk Full" warning

From: Tong (mlist4suntong_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/03/05

  • Next message: Damon Chesser: "bug or not?" 
    To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:51:31 -0500

    On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 11:17:09 -0800, Eric Gaumer wrote:

    > Robert Brockway wrote:
    >>>Anyone know of an app which warns when your hard disk gets full - I often fill
    >>>up my hard disk, which causes KDE to bork. Such a Gnome/KDE app would be
    >>>helpful.
    >>
    >>
    >> Any mature network/system monitoring tool will do this. [...]
    >>
    >
    > 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.

    I have a small Tk script just to watch it. -- good if you are doing
    downloading or copying from volumn to volumn, you can see for yourself
    right then and there. 

    -- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org 
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
  • Next message: Damon Chesser: "bug or not?"