Shell script to monitor or watch the disk space

#!/bin/sh
# Shell script to monitor or watch the disk space
# It will send an email to $ADMIN, if the (free avilable) percentage
# of space is >= 90%
# ————————————————————————-
# Linux shell script to watch disk space (should work on other UNIX oses )
# SEE URL: http://www.indiangnu.org
# set admin email so that you can get email
ADMIN=”ravi@indiangnu.org”
# set alert level 90% is default
ALERT=90
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 $ALERT ]; then
echo “Running out of space \”$partition ($usep%)\” on $(hostname) as on $(date)” |
mail -s “Alert: Almost out of disk space $usep” $ADMIN
fi
done

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Thank You,

Ravi Bhure

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