Fedora May Be Killing Your Laptop's Hard Drive?

[John Summerfield]

Mark C. Allman wrote:
>

> 
> I set up a loop to print the last value of the "193 Load_Cycle_Count"
> line from command "smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sda" once a minute this
> morning.  I let it run all day, and after eight hours it never changed
> from 328146.  I shutdown (hibernated) the system and resumed a bit later
> in my home office.  The loop (which just resumed right along with
> everything else) now prints a constant value of 328150 once a minute.
> 
> FWIW, the loop looks like:
> 
>   for whoCares in /usr/bin/*; do   # easy way to loop for a few days
>     sudo smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sda | egrep '^[ \t]*193' | awk '{print
> $NF;}'; 
>     sleep 60; 
>   done

The pedants are in:-)

# Thos loops for ever
while :
  do sudo smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sda | egrep '^[ \t]*193' \
	| awk '{print $NF;}';
  sleep 1m
  done

The grep and awk can be combined more elegantly too, but I'll leave that 
for the next pedant:-)

And sudo could be relocated to advantage....


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John

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