[ubuntu-uk] Disk Full (or nearly full) alert

[Chris Weaver]

Forgot to say thank you for the suggestions regarding disk space
alerts. I went with the roll your own option of df, cron and Zenity
for a GUI alert. Works really well.

- Chris



2009/9/29 Alan Pope <alan at popey.com>:
> 2009/9/29 Chris Weaver <chris at resonancefm.com>:
>> Does anyone have a system or app in place where they get the Windows style
>> "disk is nearly full" alerts? I realise it's an old bug/idea
>> http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/17590/ but there doesn't (to my limited
>> knowledge) seem to be a viable solution.
>>
>
> The latest version of Ubuntu (9.10) which is in development and due
> out at the end of next month already has this. I have had popup alerts
> to tell me that my built in and usb disks/sticks are getting full.
> Quite handy :)
>
> One revealed a bug in the printing system which causes many GB of logs
> to be written to /var/log. So very useful.
>
>> It easy enough to manually check the disks with du but we have many here at
>> the studio.
>>
>
> Another option for remote monitoring is something like gkrellm. I used
> to use this although many now prefer tools like conky. With gkrellm
> you run gkrellmd on each machine you want to monitor and gkrellm (gui
> app) on the central machine. It can connect to the remote machines and
> alert you of all kinds of things - disk space included.
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>
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