Questionable Status

[Michael Cronenworth]

Bruno Wolff III on 09/23/2009 12:36 PM wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

The resulting daemon output is dumped into log files though. Not
something a typical desktop user expects to look. Sure you can run it
manually but the resulting output can look alien to a normal user. My
recommendation of gnome-disk-utility should be what he's looking for.