Disk drive information in vb.net System.IO.DriveInfo

I was taken by surprise when one of my servers hung up. No web site was showing I was getting an error of service not available message in my explorer. I remotely logged into my server and found out that one of  the drives had run out of space; and the disk cleaning utility had fired up and was running consuming all the resources of my server. That was bad news for me.

So I decided to create a utility for alerting myself before time and here is a piece of code that I would like to share.

I am using the new class of DriveInfo available in .Net 2.0 in the System.IO namespace.

I simply send an email alert at my address informing me that its time for re-actions .

    Dim CDriveFreeSpace As Long = 2147483648                                    2GB
    Dim DDriveFreeSpace As Long = 1073741824                                    1GB

    For Each curDrive As DriveInfo In My.Computer.FileSystem.Drives
      If curDrive.DriveType = DriveType.Fixed Then
        Dim theFreeSpace As Long = curDrive.AvailableFreeSpace
        If curDrive.Name = “C:\” And theFreeSpace <= CDriveFreeSpace Then
                  ‘ send mail
        End If
        If curDrive.Name = “D:\” And theFreeSpace <= DDriveFreeSpace Then
                  ’ send mail
        End If
      End If
    Next

You can use the code as you like create a VB application, schedule it or else and please do share with me in what different ways can one use this code to solve the problem that I have just encountered.