Re: smartd?

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On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 15:23, Bevan C. Bennett wrote:
> John Gray wrote:
> > When fedora is booting I get an error regarding "smartd".
> > Can anyone tell me what that is?
> It monitors hard drive health in compatible harddrives.

What I've done on my systems, to keep it simple, is comment out the
/dev/hda line in /etc/smartd.conf and add to the end the line:

DEVICESCAN -H -m diskerror@host

This scans every device from /dev/hda through /dev/hdz and /dev/sda
through /dev/sdz.  A hardware failure will generate an e-mail to the
given address.

Yes, I know smartd has lots more capabilities than that.  In addition to
the man page, there was an article about it in Linux Journal in the
January 2004 issue.  But an e-mail when I'm about to lose a disk is a
lot more warning than I used to get, which was none at all.

-- 
Stephen Walton <stephen.walton@xxxxxxxx>
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Cal State Northridge




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