I have an SSD in a USB caddy used for writing ephemeral video clips and jpegs; it’s not forming part of any valuable dataset.
Space usage for pool "temporary" is 70%. Optimal pool performance requires used space remain below 80%
I don’t mind the SSD becoming too full or completely full. Can I edit the “alert” threshold to be (say) 99% or can I disable the message entirely for this disk?
You can change when or if the alerts are generated by clicking the Bell icon at the top right, then the cog wheel and then the Alert Settings option.
In my 24.04 install the settings controlling the space warnings are in the Storage section and there is a setting for 70, 80 and 90% respectively.
Unfortunately, the setting appears to be for all storage, not per pool.
I did look there first but the “storage” page in Electric Eel doesn’t show the quotas; your reply made me search and I now see I can set via this edit button:
and then set the warnings to very high %:
So I shall see if that does the trick. Thanks for your reply, which prompted me to look at things differently.
No, elevating the warning threshold didn’t do the trick. I have still received a couple of emails saying
Space usage for pool “temporary” is 88%. Optimal pool performance requires used space remain below 80%.
Space usage for pool “temporary” is 90%. Optimal pool performance requires used space remain below 80%.
and then
CRITICAL
Space usage for pool “temporary” is 91%. Optimal pool performance requires used space remain below 80%.
I now realise that’s quota management, not overall space management so perhaps I need to look into setting the quota space to equal the overall SSD and then limiting the quota?
These settings are global, as pointed out to me by @neofusion :
so I also don’t think I can suppress the alert for just one drive alone.
