Re: disks:freespace nightmare, local mounts require nasty workaround.

[Bas van der Vlies]

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> cfengine 2.0.0
> Red Hat 7.2
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> Hello Mark!
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> I am trying to use the option 'freespace' to monitor my disk space as
> I tried a few weeks (months ?) ago, and it was a nightmare.
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> I searched in the newsgroups and it seems that people have been asking
> about this since 1999:
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> Now, I think that doing this:
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>    /home  freespace=99%    inform=true
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> should be all it is needed, and it seems that Bas van der Vlies agrees
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I am just back from holiday! But in the new cfengine you can use
  /home freespace=99% inform=true force=true

So you do not have to create a directory with a file in it. The force
option skips the checks to determine if the filesystem is local.