On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 03:10:50PM +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote:
> Daniel Dalton <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > Yeah... I can actually hear the drive doing lots of groaning as
> > gdm/gnome fires up...
> 
> That still happens?  On spinning metal that *isn't* sick?

Maybe it could just be processor then, but I was thinking it was the
disk. 
It didn't sound particularly unhealthy to me though.... 

> How old are the disks, and when was the last time you ran a SMART
> self-test on them?

1 year old disks. Don't think I've done that. 

> 
>           map smartctl -t short    -- /dev/sd[abc]    # or long
>     watch map smartctl -l selftest -- /dev/sd[abc]

It is command not found. What to install to do this? 
Tried looking it up, but I'm not really familiar with this...

Thanks,
Dan
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