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
