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[picsort] / pics-preprocess

diff --git a/pics-preprocess b/pics-preprocess
index 55b27179d99ba1d8eede4b7565557662d67337c7..9d0b42f06e07357f0f9c20e68d081ca9860f227f 100755 (executable)
--- a/pics-preprocess
+++ b/pics-preprocess
@@ -4,11 +4,18 @@
 # This makes many variants of each .NEF file at different exposure levels
 # and makes reduced-size versions for faster browsing.
 
+MINFREESPACE=$((10 * 1024 * 1024)) # 10GiB in KiB
+
 SMALLHEIGHT=700
 
 renice -n 19 $$
+ionice -c 3 -p $$
 
 for f;do
+  if (( "$(df -k . | awk 'NR == 2 { print $4 }')" < $MINFREESPACE ));then
+    echo "Out of disk space"
+    break
+  fi
   if [[ "$f" == *.NEF ]];then
     for level in {10..30};do
       mkdir -p {,sm/}"$level"