Questionable Status

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:05:26 -0600,
  Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:38:10 +0300
> Jussi Lehtola wrote:
> 
> > That's because older distributions didn't have automatically enabled
> > disk health monitoring GUI software. Fedora 11 does.
> 
> At risk of asking a stupid question, where does it provide that monitoring?
> 
> I haven't seen anything about SMART on any of my Fedora desktops; what am I
> missing?

The package is smartmontools. The daemon name is smartd. It starts scheduled
tests based on the config file (/etc/smartd.conf).

You can also use smartctl to manually look at the current status or start
tests.