Christophe Casalegno

Bash : how to simply check disk space on linux and take action when a threshold is reached

Hi all, after showing you how to simply check load average or memory usage on linux, today i’ll simply show you how to check disk space and take action if a threshold is reached.

We’ll simply use df, grep, awk, cut and if/then to do this :

#!/bin/bash
# Ex alert_threshold=90 -> You will be alerted if your occupied space is more or equal than threshold
alert_threshold=90
# Email for alert
rcpt1="nospam@nospam.com"
# Hostname
host=`hostname -f`
i=0
for disk in `df |grep dev |grep -v tmpfs |grep -v udev| awk -F" " '{print $1}' | cut -d/ -f3`
do
        space_use=`df | grep $disk | awk -F" " '{print $5}' | cut -d% -f1`
        if [ "$space_use" -gt "$alert_threshold" ]
        then
                i=$((i + 1))
                over_threshold["$i"]="$disk"
        fi
done
        if [ ${#over_threshold[*]} -gt 0 ]
        then
                echo >/tmp/mail.txt
                subject="Disk space over threshold on $host"
                echo "">> /tmp/mail.txt
                echo "Disks with space problem with more than $alert_threshold% occupied space" >> /tmp/mail.txt
                echo "">> /tmp/mail.txt
                for disk in ${over_threshold[*]}
                        do
                                info_disk=(`df -h | grep $disk | awk -F" " '{print $6, $2, $3, $4, $5}'`)
                                echo "- Mount point : ${info_disk[O]} - Total space : ${info_disk[1]} - Used space : ${info_disk[2]} - Free space : ${info_disk[3]} - Used space in percents : ${info_disk[4]}" >> /tmp/mail.txt ; echo "" >> /tmp/mail.txt
                        done
# Now send the email alert
        cat /tmp/mail.txt |mail -s "$subject" $rcpt1
      fi

Just put it in your crontab and you’ll received an alert when you’ll use too many space on your disk. You can also replace mail by actions of your choice. You can download the script directly via this weblink : diskcheck.sh or via wget :

wget --no-check-certificate https://www.christophe-casalegno.com/tools/diskcheck.sh ; chmod +x diskcheck.sh


Enjoy !

Christophe Casalegno
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