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Idea
#3343: Improve hard drive stability and performance.
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Written by fordplay the 5 Mar 08 at 15:16.
Category: System.
Related to:
Nothing/Others.
Status: New
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Description
A GUI for doing hard drive maintenance would be a good addition for Ubuntu. It would be able to be scheduled to run at night or on next boot and comprise of at least these 2 methods.
1, Trigger the hard drives, (not solid state) to read every sector of the drive/drives allowing SMART and other built in hard drive technology to remove partially damaged sectors before it is to late. This is roughly how Steve Gibsons SpinRite software works see www.GRC.com for details. This process will need to monitor hard drive temperatures whilst this is happening to avoid causing any potential problems to the drive.
2, Trigger fsck to repair the file system.
3, I'm sure there most be other stuff that could be run, clearing caches etc...
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Auzy wrote on the 6 Mar 08 at 05:53
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If you ran through a 750GB harddisk reading all data every night, wouldn't it reduce the life of the hardisk. I see the benefits overall.. I dont agree with 1, but I agree it overall is a good idea, so +1
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zerix01 wrote on the 6 Mar 08 at 08:21
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A hard disk utility would be good. The whole hard disk read thing may not be something you would want to do often. As for running fsck the utility should have options for the common Linux file systems as fsck as far as I know only works on EXT2/3/4. I personally run ReiserFS v3 which has it's own set of fsck like utilities and lets not forget JFS and the like.
It would be nice to add a RAID GUI to this as well that can act as a front end for setting up and monitoring DMRAID and mdadm.
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fordplay wrote on the 6 Mar 08 at 11:08
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The hard drive reading part of this would be similar to one of the functions of Steve Gibsons product Spinrite which you can find at www.grc.com
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nitro182 wrote on the 9 Apr 08 at 13:19
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I agree. A default GUI instrument for HD mantainance. For checking disks and partitions (even FAT or NTFS if it's possible). With the possibility of schedule checks. With an option to execute check at the next boot. Of course with the possibility to repair or "jump" bad sectors to avoid data-loss. And also an option to create a final report.
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