Re: Monitor file system free space

mark@xxxxxxxxxxxx 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.

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?

Thanks for any thoughts,

Mark



Hello Mark!

A general solution is to have your user's home directories (/home/user1, /home/user2) on a separate partition. This way, when you fill it, no system process will crash...

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