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On Sunday 29 Jan 2017 09:59:53 Daniel Frey wrote: |
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> As far as monitoring, some vendors have tools for that I believe. They |
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> usually do run SMART. |
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I've found an off-line testing suite here [1], which I'll have a play with. |
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> Are you running fstrim once in a while like it's recommended? Apparently |
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> using 'discard' as an option when mounting is no longer recommended. On |
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> my laptops I use a systemd timer to do this. Before that I used anacron |
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> (I think it was anacron) which would run missed cronjobs. |
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I thought I had a twice-daily cron job running fstrim, but then I found I've |
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been running without it for somewhat over a month. I've now reinstated the |
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missing crontab entries and I'll watch for more things going bump in the |
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night. |
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One partition had also grown to 75% occupancy so I've also enlarged that. It |
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was the ~/.VirtualBox partition, and boinc creates, uses and discards VMs |
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all the time, so it's possible the two problems compounded each other to |
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cause my portage damage. |
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Regards |
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Peter |
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