What is smartd?

[Nathan Christiansen]

I had a similar problem.

There was one directive in /etc/smartd.conf:
/dev/hda -H -m root at localhost.localdomain

This tells smartd to check the hard drive /dev/hda for errors.

My hard drive was not /dev/hda so it failed on startup.

You can find out what drive your hard drive(s) is (are) by:
cat /proc/partitions

I found out through that output (edited for brevity):
major minor  #blocks  name ...

   3    64   19941264 hdb  ...
   3    65     104391 hdb1 ...
   3    66   18788017 hdb2 ...
   3    67    1044225 hdb3 ...

That my hard drive is actually /dev/hdb with 3 partitions hdb1 through
hdb3.

I changed the /etc/smartd.conf to say:
/dev/hdb -H -m root at localhost.localdomain

And now smartd works.


-- Nathan Christiansen


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kaustubh Ghosh [mailto:meetkaustubhghosh at vsnl.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 11:20 AM
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: What is smartd?
>
>
> I have a peculiar situation:
>
> When my FC1 boots up,it gives a message:
> Starting smartd:                        [FAILED]
>
> When it shuts down ,it gives message:
> Stopping smartd:                 [FAILED]
>
> Everything ,the desktop etc. works fine -there is no problem.But what is
> 'smartd'  and why does it fail?
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
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