Maintenance & Monitoring

Remove unwanted files

  1. Remove Thumbs.db files
    These files are generated by Windows OS. They can be removed by:  

    find /share/ -iname "thumbs.db" -exec rm {} \;

  2. Remove .DS_Store
    These files are generated by Macs and some Linux OS. Remove them using:  

    find /share/ -iname ".ds_store" -exec rm {} \;

  3. Remove temporary files that start with “._”:
    find /share/ -iname "._*" -exec rm {} \;

Checking Hard Drive Temperatures

  1. Install HDD temperature tools

    2. sudo apt-get install hddtemp

  2. Check using

    3. sudo hddtemp /dev/sd[a-d]

Checking Hard Drive Performance

  1. Install hdparm

    2. sudo apt-get install hdparm

  2. Check hard drive speeds

    3. sudo hdparm -tT /dev/sda (raw HDD speed)
    sudo hdparm -tT /dev/md0 (raw RAID5 array speed)