-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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?
If your mail server is important ( ;-) ), put your mails and/or all of /var on a separate partition, maybe with quotas. Do the same for /home. - -- Johannes Three nations have not officially adopted the International System of Units as their primary or sole system of measurement: Burma, Liberia, and the United States. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si_units -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAksw3lMACgkQC1NzPRl9qEUEfwCeI3lTkE+2B9+zOuSiaM4Vdkss 9r0AnjQu64yQln3KXuAvm7lpuuC9My/P =gL0G -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org