Comment 471 for bug 59695
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| Akshay Srinivasan (akshay.srinivasan) wrote Re: [Bug 59695] Re: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime | #471 |
I finished writing a simple Shell script for monitoring the disk-head
activity.Once started , it beeps if the number of parks exceed a preset
limit , within the given interval of time.You need to have beep
installed for it to work.
P.S : - Running smartctl usually brings the disk out of idle , so don't
set the interval to a very small value.Also , the script needs to be run
with sudo.