[OT] Re: Warning needed

Marc Mutz (Marc@Mutz.com)
Wed, 28 Jul 1999 18:11:30 +0200

Garst R. Reese wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
<snipped Garst's diary :->
> Then I did df and saw that my /
> partition was full. Doh. None of the error messages I got suggested
> such. Maybe update or the like could to do a simple check and warn of
> such when vital resources get dangerously low.
> Garst
>
It's a distribution's thing. They could add something along the lines of

if (df;df -i) | grep 9.%; then
echo "One or more filesystems as using over 90% of their"
echo "available space or inodes. See above for details."
fi

to their cron.daily scripts...

Marc

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University of Bielefeld, Dep. of Mathematics / Dep. of Physics


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