who to use smartmontools

J.Markoll j.markoll at free.fr
Tue Jul 26 20:30:55 UTC 2005


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René L. Reingard wrote:
|> Am Tue, 26 Jul 2005 20:57:59 +0200 schrieb ZIYAD A. M. AL-BATLY
|> <zamb at saudi.net.sa>:
|
|
|> As what J.Markoll wrote... "smartmontools" will start (as a process
|> named "smartd") when you install it and after you start your system
|> automatically.
|>
|> However, for "smartd" to function correctly, it need a system that
|> support S.M.A.R.T. technology.  This means that you have a somewhat new
|> mainboard and hard-drive (no older than 5 years).  Your main-board most
|> enable this feature as I found it's disabled by default almost on all
|> systems I have saw.  Just consult your main-board manual on how to go to
|> the BIOS and how to change it's settings.  By the way, there's fairly a
|> good chance that your system already supporting S.M.A.R.T. and all you
|> need is to install "smartmontools" and check your "/var/log/syslog" for
|> any messages.
|
|
| Hi,
| I could enable SMART in BIOS. fine!. and I checked syslog after a
| restart,  but could not find any anomalies regarding hda (Harddisk).
| not even the word Error was to be found in syslog. I guess things still
| run somewhat well.
| thank you to both of you.
| René
Happy I could help.
After all, I'm just a one year old newbie :)
Plus 'smartmontools' is most interesting, who could ignore such
a tool that can test hard drives ?

Here's also a nice tool! but just to figure out visually in a nice
way, how the Hard drive is occupied!
I didn't even try it yet!  :)
| http://methylblue.com/filelight/

Best greetings, J.Markoll.

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