I'm curious about what tool[s] you use for "simply taking a report a day for each disk and when disks act up I see if the bad sectors count are rising on one of the disks".
[I do not agree with the 'less than useful' classification of smartd. Did you really see situations where your just-look-at-the-bad-blocks strategy did reveal some imminent catastrophe but smartd did _not_?
[I was thinking about opening another thread for this, but stepped back then again.]
Thank you!
În vin., 16 aug. 2024 la 19:21, Roger Heflin rogerheflin@gmail.com a scris:
Someone seems to have added it to setup a snmp config. It is unlikely you want an snmp config/install, its only use is for external monitoring via the network (without ssh access) and is for the most part not being used much anymore.
You might do a man smartd.conf and see if there is an option to disable snmp config completely.
I also disable smartd because generally it is less than useful (I have had too many "your disk is going to fail soon" notifications where the disk stopped working >3 years later--so the warning was useless, I have also had disks fail that smartd did not ever report as failed). Generally I view its reliability is so bad the tool is actually WORSE than useless since it scares you with incorrect warnings, and fails to report real (usually bad sector issues) correctly.
I replace it with simply taking a report a day for each disk and when disks act up I see if the bad sectors count are rising on one of the disks.
On Fri, Aug 16, 2024 at 10:33 AM Robert McBroom via users users@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
Boot process f40 system stops for a long time with a problem with smartd. Seems to access the system drives and note that they are SMART capable. The following entries are in the journal
smartd[977]: Warning via /usr/libexec/smartmontools/smartdnotify to root produced>>
smartd[977]: No configuration file found at (null) or /etc/esmtprc
After multiple entries
smartd[977]: No configuration file found at (null) or /etc/esmtp
The files referenced are not in /etc. Don't see such files on a f39 system
What is the system looking to find and where can it be found.
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