Questionable Status
Bruno Wolff III
bruno at wolff.to
Wed Sep 23 17:36:11 UTC 2009
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.
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