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  1. Bug #59695
  2. Comment #466

Comment 466 for bug 59695

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houstonbofh (leesharp) wrote : Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime

Brian Visel wrote:
> Good info!
>
> It shouldn't be too difficult to include a script that monitors the
> system for the bug, to be run by cron, then notifies the user, providing
> an option to automatically disable power management on the disk if so.
> I could do that. Is there a way I could get it published, if I did make
> such a script?

If you can put your fix in a deb, you can host it in a personal package
archive on an ubuntu site. https://help.launchpad.net/PPAQuickStart
After some peer review, it could be picked up by the main distribution,
or at least used by many people. It could also be contributed to by
others. It would be a small project, but a popular one. The ntfs r/w
automount and autofsck started out in ways similar to this.