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Shell script to watch the disk space
df displays the amount of disk space available on the file system containing each file name argument. If no file name is given, the space available on all currently mounted file systems is shown. Read man page of df if you are new to df command.
Steps
=> Find disk space using df
=> Filter out filesystem and find out the percentage of space using grep
=> Write a shell script
Step # 1: First get disk space:
$ df -H
Output:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hdb1 20G 14G 5.5G 71% / tmpfs 394M 4.1k 394M 1% /dev/shm /dev/hdb5 29G 27G 654M 98% /nas/www
Step # 2: Next filter out filesystem and find out the percentage of space
$ df -H | grep -vE '^Filesystem|tmpfs|cdrom' | awk '{ print $5 " " $1 }'
Output:
71% /dev/hdb1 98% /dev/hdb5
Step # 3: Write a shell script
Above command displays field 5 and 1 of df command. Now all you need to do is write a script to see if the percentage of space is >= 90% (download script):
#!/bin/sh
df -H | grep -vE '^Filesystem|tmpfs|cdrom' | awk '{ print $5 " " $1 }' | while read output;
do
echo $output
usep=$(echo $output | awk '{ print $1}' | cut -d'%' -f1 )
partition=$(echo $output | awk '{ print $2 }' )
if [ $usep -ge 90 ]; then
echo "Running out of space \"$partition ($usep%)\" on $(hostname) as on $(date)" |
mail -s "Alert: Almost out of disk space $usep%" you@somewhere.com
fi
done
Setup Cron job
Save and install script as cronjob. Copy script to /etc/cron.daily/ (script downolad link)
# cp diskAlert /etc/cron.daily/
# chmod +x /etc/cron.daily/diskAlert
OR install as cronjob:
crontab -e
Write cronjob as per your requirement
10 0 * * * /path/to/diskAlertUpdated script version
Tony contributed and updated my script - You can exclude selected filesystem in case you don't want monitor all filesystems.
#!/bin/sh
# set -x
# Shell script to monitor or watch the disk space
# It will send an email to $ADMIN, if the (free available) percentage of space is >= 90%.
# -------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Set admin email so that you can get email.
ADMIN="root"
# set alert level 90% is default
ALERT=90
# Exclude list of unwanted monitoring, if several partions then use "|" to separate the partitions.
# An example: EXCLUDE_LIST="/dev/hdd1|/dev/hdc5"
EXCLUDE_LIST="/auto/ripper"
#
#::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
#
function main_prog() {
while read output;
do
#echo $output
usep=$(echo $output | awk '{ print $1}' | cut -d'%' -f1)
partition=$(echo $output | awk '{print $2}')
if [ $usep -ge $ALERT ] ; then
echo "Running out of space \"$partition ($usep%)\" on server $(hostname), $(date)" | \
mail -s "Alert: Almost out of disk space $usep%" $ADMIN
fi
done
}
if [ "$EXCLUDE_LIST" != "" ] ; then
df -H | grep -vE "^Filesystem|tmpfs|cdrom|${EXCLUDE_LIST}" | awk '{print $5 " " $6}' | main_prog
else
df -H | grep -vE "^Filesystem|tmpfs|cdrom" | awk '{print $5 " " $6}' | main_prog
fi
