Disk monitoring

[Taco Witte]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 05:11:55 -0500, ioliver <dlist at ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
> 
> I use smartmon tools and while I haven't had any nasty errors yet, it's
> certainly reassuring to know that my disks aren't too hot and there's
> nothing creeping up on my.
> 
> You can use the daemon to monitor continuously, and run regular tests,
> or use smartctl to do spot tests.
> 
> Maybe Ubuntu could have a GUI interface that could trigger tests and
> show the results? Unfortunately, disks vary a lot in what they can do.

Maybe something like that could be integrated with lm-sensors, so the
temperatures and voltages of the mainboard are monitored as well in a
friendly way. (Could the low-level part be integrated with hotplug?)

Kind regards,
Taco