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| − | We could add a section on enabling smartd to monitor disk health <br>
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| − | see http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1445 <br>
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| − | http://www.linuxmanpages.com/man8/smartd.8.php
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| − | ===Monitor Disk Health===
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| − | 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.
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| − | ====Method 1====
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| − | Enable
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| − | config set smartd service
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| − | config setprop smartd status enabled
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| − | ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/e-smith-service /etc/rc.d/rc7.d/S40smartd
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| − | This will log warnings to /var/log/messages, Emails to admin on critical errors would be good.
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| − | ====Method 2====
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| − | Create a script that will run at each re-boot, with your own options <br>
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| − | this method just saves having to template the config file
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| − | nano -w /etc/e-smith/events/local/S40smartd
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| − | #! /bin/sh
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| − | smartd -H -m admin -M diminishing -M test
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| − | chmod +x /etc/e-smith/events/local/S40smartd
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