i have seen that the intel n series like 100/150 are good, all it needs it run jellyfin on Linux, and probably put an external usb3 hard drive for the media
any recommendations for UK
this is for scenario i have where server are used a log fowarders, its the sole job of the server spool logs that get pushed upstream, does the logic look ok, any gotchas you can see, i made a check for locks on syslog.1 as i don't know if logrotate or syslog could be doing something with the file.
#!/bin/bash
# cleanup_syslog.sh
# Checks free disk space on the partition holding /var/log.
# If free space is below 10% OR below 3 GB, deletes the oldest
# syslog archive file in /var/log.
LOG_DIR="/var/log"
THRESHOLD_PERCENT=10
THRESHOLD_BYTES=$((3 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024)) # 3 GB in bytes
# ----------------------------------------------------------
# Get filesystem stats for the partition that holds /var/log
# ---------------------------------------------------------
# df output (POSIX): Filesystem 1K-blocks
read -r fs total_kb used_kb avail_kb use_pct mount \
< <(df -P "$LOG_DIR" | tail -1)
avail_bytes=$(( avail_kb * 1024 ))
total_bytes=$(( total_kb * 1024 ))
# Calculate free percentage
if [[ "$total_bytes" -eq 0 ]]; then
echo "ERROR: Could not determine total disk size for $LOG_DIR" >&2
exit 1
fi
free_pct=$(( avail_bytes * 100 / total_bytes ))
echo "Partition : $fs (mounted at $mount)"
echo "Total : $(( total_bytes / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 )) GB"
echo "Free : $(( avail_bytes / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 )) GB ($free_pct%)"
echo "Thresholds: < ${THRESHOLD_PERCENT}% OR < $(( THRESHOLD_BYTES / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 )) GB"
echo ""
# Check whether cleanup is needed
needs_cleanup=0
if [[ "$free_pct" -lt "$THRESHOLD_PERCENT" ]]; then
echo "WARNING: Free space is ${free_pct}% which is below the ${THRESHOLD_PERCENT}% threshold."
needs_cleanup=1
fi
if [[ "$avail_bytes" -lt "$THRESHOLD_BYTES" ]]; then
echo "WARNING: Free space is $(( avail_bytes / 1024 / 1024 )) MB which is below the 3 GB threshold."
needs_cleanup=1
fi
if [[ "$needs_cleanup" -eq 0 ]]; then
echo "Disk space is OK. No cleanup needed."
exit 0
fi
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Find the oldest syslog archive and delete it
# Syslog archives match: syslog.*.gz or syslog.* (rotated by logrotate)
# Use ls -t (newest first) and take the last entry = oldest file.
# -1 ensures one file per line; grep narrows to syslog archives only.
oldest_archive=$(
ls -1t "$LOG_DIR"/syslog.* 2>/dev/null \
| grep -E 'syslog\.[0-9]' \
| tail -1
)
if [[ -z "$oldest_archive" ]]; then
echo "No syslog archive files found in $LOG_DIR to delete."
exit 0
fi
if fuser "$oldest_archive" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
echo "File is in use, skipping"
else
echo "Deleting oldest syslog archive: $oldest_archive"
rm -f "$oldest_archive"
fi
if [[ $? -eq 0 ]]; then
echo "Successfully deleted: $oldest_archive"
else
echo "ERROR: Failed to delete $oldest_archive" >&2
exit 1
fi
exit 0