On Thursday 02 September 2004 11:49, Alexander Dalloz wrote: >Am Do, den 02.09.2004 schrieb Michael Marsh um 17:34: >> I run fedora as a samba server and have just recovered from my >> second hard disk crash in only 8 months. Is there a way that i >> can monitor and fix hard disk health between disasters? >> >> Michael Marsh > >Run and use the smartd (man smartd), which makes use of the > S.M.A.R.T. features of modern hard drives. This will alarm you if a > unrecoverable drive failure is to be expecting. > >Using lm_sensors you might too monitor the drive's temperature which > is a sensible factor for drive health too. > Duh. Thats the second reference I've seen to that, Alexander. How does one go about doing that? >Alexander -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.24% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
