Martin Gregorie wrote: > On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 23:36 +0300, Kari Laine wrote: > > > > I would also check for the hard disk with manufacturers diagnostic program. > > > > > A simple and easy way to keep an eye on your disks' health is to install > the SMART monitoring package. It runs as a daemon that tracks operating > changes on your disk(s) and periodically runs a test on them. By default > it reports changes in the overnight logwatch report and I also have a > weekly cron job set up to do a more rigorous report. AFAIK SMART is part > of every distro (I use Fedora), so installation is straight forward. > > Almost all disks have been SMART compliant for several years now. > > > Martin thx for the info. i've just installed it. Now i'll take a look at it. And i didnt know anything about the bathtub curve, so thx for that too. Anyway, i've been running wine for some 5 hours maybe, or 6, i dunno, and fortunately it has not crashed anything yet. :P
