The state of 64-bit Desktop Linux

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:06:55PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
>| > I recently had an interesting experience.  My hard drive was dying.
>| > It would cause system slowdowns (I think) because of retrying.  No
>| > symptoms but speed.  SMART scanning found some problems.  Touch wood,
>| > the system seems much better with a new drive.
>| 
>| Is SMART an acronym for some program or used for emphasis? I wonder if it is
>| disk activity. What did you use to find this?
>
>Yeah, it is an acronym.  Try "man startctl".

He means "man smartctl"
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yours,

William

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