On 2024-02-28 20:30:35 +0100, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: > On Wed, 28 Feb 2024, Laurenz Albe wrote: > > On Wed, 2024-02-28 at 12:16 +0100, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote: > > > So what is the moral of the story? How to guard against this? > > > > Monitor disk usage ... > > It happened *fast*. And it was quite a big suprise coming > from "just" a disk-full situation. Been there. To prevent this in the future I wrote a small script to monitor disk space (on multiple hosts and multiple file systems) every few seconds and invoke another script (which just terminates all database connections - a bit drastic but effective) if free space runs low: https://github.com/hjp/platzangst hp -- _ | Peter J. Holzer | Story must make more sense than reality. |_|_) | | | | | hjp@xxxxxx | -- Charles Stross, "Creative writing __/ | http://www.hjp.at/ | challenge!"
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