Here's a link to more related stuff that should probably go on a bug report: http://www.linux-hero.com/rant/explanation-ubuntu-hard-drive-wear-and-tear On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 14:26 +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote: > There is a bit of buzz at the moment about > ubuntu affecting laptop hard drives reliability: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bug/59695 > > If I run the following on my F7 laptop while it's plugged in: > > while true; do > smartctl -A /dev/sda | > grep -F Load_Cycle_Count | > tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 2,10 > sleep 10 > done > > I get: > > Load_Cycle_Count 351489 > Load_Cycle_Count 351491 > Load_Cycle_Count 351493 > Load_Cycle_Count 351495 > Load_Cycle_Count 351498 > > Which is about once every 4 seconds or so. > As mentioned in the bug report I can turn this > off by doing `hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda` > > Should anything be changed for the F8 release? > > cheers, > Pádraig. > > -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
