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[Unit]
Description=Alerts admin if storage is running low
Wants=storagealert.timer
[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/local/sbin/storagealert
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
#!/bin/bash
# Setup:
# 0. Have a mail server set up, or something that provides `sendmail` with proper sender permissions.
# 1. Adjust the $drive, $buckets, $from and $to variables below to suit your needs.
# 2. Create /var/local/storagealert/$drive.txt and write 0 to it.
# If using systemd:
# 3. Put this script at /usr/local/sbin/storagealert with chmod 0755.
# 4. Put the storagealert.service and storagealert.timer files in /etc/systemd/system/.
# 5. Run:
# systemctl daemon-reload
# systemctl enable storagealert.timer
# systemctl start storagealert.timer
# If using cron:
# 3. Put this script at /etc/cron.hourly/storagealert with chmod 0755.
set -e;
drive='PLACEHOLDER';
buckets=('95' '90' '80');
from='[email protected]';
to='[email protected]';
pct="$(df --output=pcent "/dev/$drive" | egrep -v '^Use%$')";
if [ "$(wc -l <<<"$pct")" -ne '1' ]; then
echo '`df` returned multiple lines of output:' >&2;
echo "$pct" >&2;
exit 1;
fi;
if ! grep -Pq '^\s*\d+%$' <<<"$pct"; then
echo '`df` returned bad percentage:' >&2;
echo "$pct" >&2;
exit 1;
fi;
pct="$(sed -E 's#^[[:space:]]*([[:digit:]]+)%$#\1#' <<<"$pct")";
old="$(cat "/var/local/storagealert/$drive.txt")";
echo "$pct" >"/var/local/storagealert/$drive.txt";
do_mail=false;
crossed=0;
for b in "${buckets[@]}"; do
if [ "$pct" -ge "$b" ] && [ "$old" -lt "$b" ]; then
do_mail=true;
crossed="$b";
break;
fi;
done;
if "$do_mail"; then
sendmail -t <<EOF
From: $from
To: $to
Subject: Storage more than $crossed% full
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Drive $drive is $pct% full.
EOF
fi;
[Unit]
Description=Run storagealert every hour
Requires=storagealert.service
[Timer]
Unit=storagealert.service
OnCalendar=*-*-* *:00:00
[Install]
WantedBy=timers.target
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Just curious I know this is totally unrelated and I didn't know how to communicate to you. Do you know of any way to downgrade the firmware on an Apple Lightning USB Adapter? I'm assuming the answer would be somewhere in com.apple.mobileasset.mobileaccessoryupdate. Thank you.

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Siguza commented Feb 21, 2025

You could've gotten my email address from so many places...
But no, I don't.

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