[Techtalk] Ubuntu menu falling apart

[स्वक्ष]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 00:40, Anne Wainwright <anotheranne at fables.co.za> wrote:
> Hello, Carla,
>
> That's a useful thingy. I have experimented this evening with it on the
> laptop, will try it on the office machines tomorrow.
>
> mmm.
> $ smartctl -H -d ata /dev/sda
> SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
>
> but some errors listed which I will keep my eye on.

If you are testing your laptop, I used to restrict the head
park/unpark to increase the disk life.

http://svaksha.com/post/2008/hdd-health

Not sure if that is a good thing to do but mileages vary.

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Thanks,
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