This week we’ve been making operating systems for the Raspberry Pi 4. We discuss our favourite gadgets, bring you a verrrry long command line love and round up all your wonderful feedback.

It’s Season 13 Episode 18 of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson and Martin Wimpress are connected and speaking to your brain.

In this week’s show:

lsblk -bdno NAME,SIZE | grep -v loop | while read dev size; do model=$(</sys/block/$dev/device/model); hours=$(sudo smartctl -a /dev/${dev} | awk '/Power_On_Hours/ { gsub(/h.*/, "", $10); print $10 }'); years=$(bc <<< "scale=2; $hours / 24 / 365.25"); size_tib=$(bc <<< "scale=4; $size / 1024 / 1024 / 1024 / 1024"); printf "%s %6d hours (%5.2f years) %.2fTiB %s\n" $dev $hours $years $size_tib "$model"; done | sort -rnk 2

sdd  50346 hours ( 5.74 years) 2.73TiB TOSHIBA DT01ACA3
sdc  50346 hours ( 5.74 years) 2.73TiB TOSHIBA DT01ACA3
sda  50345 hours ( 5.74 years) 2.73TiB TOSHIBA DT01ACA3
sdb  50062 hours ( 5.71 years) 2.73TiB TOSHIBA DT01ACA3
sde  48991 hours ( 5.58 years) 0.23TiB VB0250EAVER

That’s all for this week! If there’s a topic you’d like us to discuss, or you have any feedback on previous shows, please send your comments and suggestions to [email protected] or Tweet us or Toot us or Comment on our Facebook page or comment on our sub-Reddit.


3 Comments » for S13E18 – Full moon
  1. Torin Doyle says:

    Lidl is pronounced like ‘Lee-dl’.

  2. The time it says for my Intel SSD is funny.
    The WD1001 drive was bought back on May of 2010

    sdb 953107 hours (108.72 years) 0.11TiB INTEL SSDSC2CW12
    sdd 82923 hours ( 9.45 years) 0.91TiB WDC WD1001FALS-0
    sda 26747 hours ( 3.05 years) 0.11TiB PNY CS1311 120GB
    sdc 12221 hours ( 1.39 years) 0.45TiB ST3500418AS

  3. Edward says:

    Kudos on making Ubuntu MATE 20.04 for the Raspberry Pi 4. I recently tried installed it and my sense is the performance seems snappier than some other (unnamed distros). However, I was disappointed that unlike these other distros, Ubuntu lacks two significant features:
    – booting from USB devices.
    – over-clocking via /boot/config.txt
    Are these features actually missing from Ubuntu MATE, or just some hidden way to configure them?