Re: Recurrent disk activity every minute

[Mayuresh <mayuresh%acm.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Jun 11, 2017 at 12:18:58AM +0530, Mayuresh wrote:
> The issue was also discussed in debian maling list and may provide useful
> insights:
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/06/msg01029.html

BTW, on debian, after trying a lot of suggestions I ended up writing a job
that would invoke smartctl -a on the drive every 30s to keep it from
parking the head every 1 minute.

Mayuresh.