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.