m...@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.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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