Daniel Dalton <[email protected]> writes:

> 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 makes kind of a clicky-whirry sound.  I associate clickiness with
old, sick drives, but maybe it's normal for 5400s or something.  The CPU
is solid state, NO way it should make any noise.  (Except the CPU fan,
of course.)

> It is command not found. What to install to do this?

smartmontools -- as "apt-file search bin/smartctl" would tell you.

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