Help with Disk Space script in bash shell


 
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Old 02-13-2012
Help with Disk Space script in bash shell

Hi Guys,
I'm a newb at shell scripting and successfully attempted a small disk space script (victory!!) but i'm wondering whether it actually takes into consideration KB,MB,GB. Please take a look at the script and advise.

Code:
##script to check if file sys has reached threshold.

FILESYS=/home/Arsenal
LINE=`du -h $FILESYS | awk '{print $1}'`
TRSHOLD=50

if [ $LINE -ge $TRSHOLD ]
then echo "Your file system is running out of space"
else echo "current usage of space= `expr $TRSHOLD - $LINE`"
fi

# 2  
Old 02-13-2012
It does not -- assuming 50GB is the limit. Use du -sk
Code:
kb=$(du -sk $FILESYS || awk '{print $1}' )
overlimit=$(echo $kb | awk -v lim=50 '
              { limit=50*1024 *1024 *1024
                 kb=$0 * 1024
                 if(kb>=limit){
                   {print "Y"}
                 else
                   {print "N"} ' )
[ $overlimit = "Y" ]  && echo 'WARNING DISK FULL' || echo 'disk ok'

You have to convert from kb to GB
awk does double precision arithmetic, shell does not. You need double for big numbers.
# 3  
Old 02-13-2012
Jim,

appreciate your reply mate. Your code looks much better. I'm going to use this example and try to write this in shell. Yet to learn the powers of awk. Let me know if there is a good book or online material i can follow.

Cheers
# 4  
Old 02-14-2012
Terminology is quite important here:

/home/Arsenal in unlikely to be a filesystem, more probably /home is the filesystem and /home/Arsenal is just a directory within /home.

For filesystems, the df program will show the percentage usage and total size so it's pretty handy for these sort of checks, also it's much faster than du because it can use filesystem statistics rather than adding up the sizes of all files. Of course for directories du is pretty much the only way to go.

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