Hello, monit shows space which is available to all users - the filesystem has usually few percents of space (1-10%) reserved for root user only and as soon as the filesystem reach this limit, non-root users will fail to write to the filesystem even though the "df" may show some free space.
Regards, Martin On Mar 5, 2011, at 4:41 PM, Dennis Raj wrote: > Hi Support, > > We are using monit for hard disk motioning. We are getting a > wrong alert regarding the disk space. Actually we put 70% as threshold. But > monit is sending alert at 64% telling that we are using more that 70%. > > In df -h, the result is > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda1 9.9G 5.7G 3.7G 61% / > > Our configuration is as follows > > check device root with path /dev/sda1 > if space usage > 70% then alert > > Waiting for your reply, > > Thanks and regards, > Dennis Raj > > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe: > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monit-general
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