From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MZ7RO-0002E0-Tz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:11:51 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7F937E0632; Thu, 6 Aug 2009 18:11:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from spore.ath.cx (mail.farrellit.net [66.191.143.114]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A12BE0632 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 2009 18:11:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pascal.spore.ath.cx (pascal.spore.ath.cx [192.168.1.100]) by spore.ath.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 397075ACD15 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 2009 13:11:49 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 13:11:49 -0500 From: Dan Farrell To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Anybody tried shake defragmenter? Message-ID: <20090806131149.2f125189@pascal.spore.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10908050742g4965f6a7i3974c715ef08b960@mail.gmail.com> References: <49bf44f10908031322y2b06b5ffx76ecb27092b9edfa@mail.gmail.com> <58965d8a0908031405g1cf04cbarc77d588072fdbe89@mail.gmail.com> <49bf44f10908031648g65d405b0i78beead0ea0b8ab9@mail.gmail.com> <20090804195836.2f1287e8@napoleon.spore.ath.cx> <49bf44f10908050742g4965f6a7i3974c715ef08b960@mail.gmail.com> Organization: Spore, Ltd. X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.14.7; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 174fbfc1-5785-40a9-a4b4-d00c46d73146 X-Archives-Hash: f83978bcfba676602a23322c7ae0b6b5 On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 07:42:24 -0700 Grant wrote: > >> =A0It never > >> made a sound before, but now there's a rhythmic grinding sound when > >> miro is running, maybe because the HD is more full now. > > > > In my experience, the rate of change of hard drive access volume is > > inversely proportional with the drive's lifetime. =A0The faster it > > gets louder, the sooner it's going to die. > > > > Time to start planning for replacement. > > > > Oh, and you're utilizing SMART, right? >=20 > Should I be doing more than running this test: >=20 > smartctl -t long /dev/sda >=20 > ? >=20 > - Grant >=20 If the host can send mail you might want to look into the option of it mailing you when problems are found. =20 Things can go bad quickly.... Other than that though, no, I think you're in good shape. =20