\/etc\/cron.hourly\/diskcheck<\/code> – the script itself<\/li>\n<\/ul>\ndiskchek periodically (hourly, by default) checks free space on all partitions and sends a notification email to the administrator (root) reporting any partitions with less than 10% of free disk space. If all paritions have enough disk space it will just keep silent. Which partitions to check\/skip, how much free disk space to consider as a warning point, and where to send the email – all of these can be easily tuned via the configuration file.<\/p>\n
This tool, while being extremely small, provides a great service – proactive notification. Thing like this can solve lots and lots of headaches while troubleshooting strange behaviours.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n
Fedora Linux ships, among many, a very useful utility – diskcheck. This RPM installs only two files: \/etc\/diskcheck.conf – small and asimple configuration file for the script \/etc\/cron.hourly\/diskcheck – the script itself diskchek periodically (hourly, by default) checks free space on all partitions and sends a notification email to the administrator (root) reporting any partitions … Continue reading diskcheck<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-8637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7467,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/04\/26\/mrtg\/","url_meta":{"origin":8637,"position":0},"title":"MRTG","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"April 26, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"MRTG (Multi Router Traffic Grapher) is monitoring utility, which runs on many platforms and is capable of collecting and graphing statistical information such as network traffic, CPU\/Memory\/Disk space usage, etc. MRTG can gather information using both SNMP protocol and external scripts. 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