Free disk space monitor

[Remco]

I made a little utility that monitors the free disk space on a diskdrive. When it gets below a certain level; it sends an email so you can clean up some recordings.

It's an DOS-style executable, so you can add it to PostProcessing.bat to automatically check the free disk space after each recording.

Usage: disklimit.exe -disk <disk> -limit <limit> [-messagefile <filename>]
<disk> : The name of the disk you want to monitor. E.g. c or d
<limit> : The limit, that triggers the alarm. E.g. 10gb or 123421342134
<filename> : (optional) If you want an email to be send, you have to specify the emailparameters in a file. An example of this file is included.

Source-files are included

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Update: version 1.42
- added a new mailing engine again
- fixed SMTP-authentication
- added support for SSL. Add |SSL:true to the messagefile

Update: version 1.3
- added a new mailing-engine, smtp.dll is not needed anymore
- added the possibility to set the server-port in the messagefile, see message-with-auth.txt for an example
- added the possibility to set the username and password for SMTP-authentication in the messagefile, see message-with-auth.txt for an example

Update: version 1.2
- in the messagefile, you can use %D to include the disk that is monitored in the email
- in the messagefile, you can send the email to multiple addresses by seperating them with a ;

Update: version 1.1
-Added support for monitoring network shares. E.g. disklimit.exe -disk \\server\share -limit 10gb

Hope you like it.
Remco

[LilY0da]

Any chance you could get it to monitor a UNC path/drive?

[onestar]

aha, excellent idea, I'm gonna give it a try. I like the email idea

[Remco]

Any chance you could get it to monitor a UNC path/drive?

I don't know how to read the free disk space of a network share, but i'm going to give it a try.

[Remco]

I don't know how to read the free disk space of a network share, but i'm going to give it a try.

Finished. It wasn't that hard; so now you can use

Code:

disklimit.exe -disk \\server\share -limit 10gb -messagefile message.txt

I guess that's what you meant?

Remco

[Pioneer4x4]

I assume that you need the message.txt, the exe, and the dll in the gbpvr directory, correct?

[Remco]

I assume that you need the message.txt, the exe, and the dll in the gbpvr directory, correct?

No; it doesn't matter where you put the .exe. If you call the exe from a .bat-file, you can put "cd c:\anywhere\" in the .bat-file. Then it can be in directory anywhere.
But the dll and the message.txt have to be in the same directory as the exe
And the PostProcessing.bat needs to be in the gbpvr directory.

Remco

[Pioneer4x4]

I added
disklimit.exe -disk e -limit 20gb -messagefile message.txt
to my post processing.bat
I remoted in to my PC and it had this error.

[Remco]

I'm sorry, but that error-screendump doesn't give me enough information to find the problem/solution.

Could you please try: run "disklimit.exe -disk e -limit 20gb -messagefile message.txt" from a command promt. If the error still appears, in the dos-box more information should be shown.

Remco

[Pioneer4x4]

I just forgot to put my email server in..... I tried it again, and it worked fine! Thanks. Could I also move the %1 to the subject line? Any other planned features?