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