Rubinium.org » disk-usage http://rubinium.org/blog The Element of Aron and Heather Fri, 25 Mar 2011 14:04:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Shell Tricks #3 – Disk Usage Alarm http://rubinium.org/blog/archives/2007/08/04/shell-tricks-3-disk-usage-alarm/ http://rubinium.org/blog/archives/2007/08/04/shell-tricks-3-disk-usage-alarm/#comments Sat, 04 Aug 2007 16:51:29 +0000 A R Baboon http://rubinium.org/blog/archives/2007/08/04/shell-tricks-3-disk-usage-alarm/ This is a one-liner to “alarm” if the disk usage of a filesystem has exceeded a certain threshold. I put the directory to monitor as “~” (home) and the threshold as 40%.

test `df -h ~ | grep -o '[0-9]*%' | grep -o '[0-9]*'` -ge 40 && echo high
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