On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> Is there anything to warn me about having a totally full harddrive? Today Linux
> was deleting everything I opened up, and I had no idea why. Eventually it
> struck me to check how full my /home partition was, and low and behold it was
> 100% full. I didn't lose anything too important thank goodness, but it would
> have been a lot better if something would have told me that I was out of disk
> space. Windows has a dialog box pop up if you have less than 75MB left, but I
> never recieved any kind of warning in Linux. Is there such a program or do I
> just have to keep up with how much space I'm taking up?
>
> --
> Anthony
> http://binaryfusion.net
> Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
I have had the same problem. Now I have the following run as a cron job
if df|grep 9[0-9]%; then df|mail -s " FS > 80% Full " $USER; fi
It will warn me if any partition gets over 80% full
--
Alex
(Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
