Merged disk checks

Rasmus Plewe rplewe at ess.nec.de
Thu Dec 19 14:52:35 CET 2002


On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 10:04:20AM +0000, Rue Turner wrote:
> I had the same problem till i discovered that if you just use disk_check
> without any path it applies your limits to all of them :) nice.
> A couple of my machines have half a dozen or so and it seems happy with
> those - ths does expand the table a little but you never miss a drive. 
> 
> warning: it will include all mounted drives. this includes CD's and
> floppies if they are mounted. I don't see this as a problem because if
> someone puts a cd in a production box i want to know about it.

You probably don't want to do this when you have a lot of
network-mounted file systems. One disk filling up and triggering 50
warnings is not really cool. Plus that you might be mounting from
machines that are not under your control, where you can't do anything
against file system status. 


Regards,
         Rasmus


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