[rt-users] Monitor disc space on RT/SQL database

[Toby Darling]

 >> I need to know how to monitor available space for my RT database.  I
 >> am very much a novice regarding SQL db administration.  Are there any
 >> other areas I should keep my eye on to avoid any future RT db problems?

> If this is mysql, you can do something like this in mysql client:
> 
> use rt3; (or whatever your rt3 database is)
> show table status;

Providing you've got $HOME/.my.cnf setup correctly to give to direct 
access to the RT mysql database:

$ echo "show table status;" | mysql | \
    awk '{tot+=$7}END{print "DB using " tot / (1024 * 1024) "Mb"}'; \
    df -h /var/lib/mysql

Cheers
Toby

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