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===Monitor Disk Health===
===Monitor Disk Health===
Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) is built into many ATA-3 and later ATA, IDE and SCSI-3 hard drives. The purpose of SMART is to monitor the reliability of the hard drive and predict drive failures, and to carry out different types of drive self-tests.
Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) is built into many ATA-3 and later ATA, IDE and SCSI-3 hard drives. The purpose of SMART is to monitor the reliability of the hard drive and predict drive failures, and to carry out different types of drive self-tests.
To enable
To enable
to send warning to admin. append the '''-m admin''' directive to DEVICESCAN in the config file
to send warning to admin. append the '''-m admin''' directive to DEVICESCAN in the config file
nano -w /etc/smartd.conf
nano -w /etc/smartd.conf
DEVICESCAN -m admin
DEVICESCAN -a -m admin -I 190 -I 194
To manually check disks
View report
smartctl -a /dev/hdc
Generate report
smartctl -t short /dev/hdc (1 minute)
smartctl -t long /dev/hdc (1 hour)
