Re: Directory Size

[Kizito Porta Balanyà]

2015-03-05 20:30 GMT+01:00  <address@hidden>:
> here's script I use to convert the number of msgs in postfix queues to bytes
> in a file
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> (freebsd syntax)
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> #!/bin/sh
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> for Q in incoming active deferred hold ; do
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> SIZE="`find /var/spool/postfix/$Q -maxdepth 5 -type f | wc -l | tr -d ' ' `"
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> dd  if=/dev/zero bs=1 count=$SIZE of=/var/db/postfix/q_size_$Q
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> done
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> exit 0
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This solution es very ingenious!
The only problem that I see is that in a big directory, it generates a
big file, but it is the price to pay.

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> then I have monit check the file size of the q_size_*
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> (for a tree depth = 0) :
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> du -d0 /path/to/dir | cut -f1 >  /var/db/monit/dirname
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> ... has the file dirname with the number of bytes in the tree at and belwow
> /path/to/dir
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> so you monit  the file size of file /var/db/monit/dirname

Len, Are you sure you monit the file size of file /var/db/monit/dirname?
Doesn't the file /var/db/monit/dirname contains the size of the dir?


Thank you.

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> Len
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> On Thursday 05/03/2015 at 11:48 am, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
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> On Thu, 5 Mar 2015 17:05:01 +0100
> Jan-Henrik Haukeland wrote:
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> This is not possible with Monit’s ‘check directory’ (it would be a nice
> thing to add in the future though). One way to do this now is to use ‘check
> program’ with ‘/usr/bin/du -s <dir>’ and return a status accordingly to if a
> threshold was reached or not
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> On 05 Mar 2015, at 16:11, Kizito Porta Balanyà <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> Any hint to monitor the size of a directory?
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> Googling about it doesn't return anything that I like.
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> Thanks a lot for your time.
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> Regards.
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> You could also use a partition and mount it to that folder and use disk
> usage instead but perhaps that is one of the things you don't like? You
> may be able to add mount options like noexec and nosuid though.
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