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Yeah, I had a laptop I used as a home server that had an uptime of nearly 2 years when I finally decided to update the packages. Turns out the hard drive was ha
by Touche 11y ago
Yeah, I had a laptop I used as a home server that had an uptime of nearly 2 years when I finally decided to update the packages. Turns out the hard drive was hanging by a thread and the reboot was enough that it gave out permanently.
- Symbiote 11y agoTry smartd[1], which can be set to run a SMART self-test at regular intervals. Presumably the hard drive won't last as long, but you'll probably get a warning before it fails. [1] https://www.smartmontools.org/browser/trunk/smartmontools/smartd.8.in https://www.smartmontools.org/browser/trunk/smartmontools/sm...