root partition

Linux User and Developer: "By default, Ubuntu wants to provide just one massive root (/) partition without separate home partitions.

This is a mistake, as anyone who's updated or recovered a Linux system should know."

If you don't want to step up to a full monitoring solution such as Nagios you can create your own scripts for monitoring the things that you want to monitor, such as disk space.

The following script alerts you when your root partition is almost full:

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