Mark C. Allman wrote:
On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 11:29 +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
Mark C. Allman wrote:
I set up a loop to print the last value of the "193 Load_Cycle_Count"
line from command "smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sda" once a minute this
morning. I let it run all day, and after eight hours it never changed
from 328146. I shutdown (hibernated) the system and resumed a bit later
in my home office. The loop (which just resumed right along with
everything else) now prints a constant value of 328150 once a minute.
FWIW, the loop looks like:
for whoCares in /usr/bin/*; do # easy way to loop for a few days
sudo smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sda | egrep '^[ \t]*193' | awk '{print
$NF;}';
sleep 60;
done
The pedants are in:-)
# Thos loops for ever
while :
do sudo smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sda | egrep '^[ \t]*193' \
| awk '{print $NF;}';
sleep 1m
done
The grep and awk can be combined more elegantly too, but I'll leave that
for the next pedant:-)
And sudo could be relocated to advantage....
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The professor (insert big, big grin and wink here) answers:
Didn't want it to loop forever, just a day or two. There are 2800+
files in /usr/bin, so 1440 minutes/day * 2 = 2880. It works and it's
utterly trivial. Also, this was a "quick and dirty" loop. I'm
interested in the numbers. Is Fedora in fact stressing our disks? How
does this compare to other OSes? Etc., etc.
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Also might help to check if you have laptop-tools package installed. It
probably affects the HD a lot more than Fedora itself.
