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Revision as of 20:38, 16 October 2008
SMART
If you want to read out the smart status of your hard disk you can use smartmontools.
>apt-get install smartmontools
Now you have 2 utility program's (smartctl and smartd). With smartctl you can read out your hard disks. To see more info on you're drive type:
>smartctl -i /dev/hda
Or to see all the smart read out
>smartctl -a /dev/hda
This will give you all info of your hard disk. For sata disk you will have to give the -d option
>smartctl -d ata -a /dev/hda
Fore more options on smartctl use -h
Now we can configure the smart daemon in /etc/smartd.conf. This daemon will monitor your hard disks. This config file gives you a good explination of the different options you can use
I use the following options
/dev/sda -d ata -a -o on -S on -s (S/../.././02|L/../../6/03) /dev/sda -d ata -H -m admin@linuz.nl
HDPARM
Also hdparm can be used to get or set the drive parameters.
darktower:~# hdparm -d /dev/hda /dev/hda: using_dma = 1 (on)
To set udma use -d0 (off) or -d1 (on). Fore more options on smartctl use -h
Partioning and format
Now to partition the disk
cfdisk /dev/hda
Choose you're partioning type en size
Now that we have 1 or more partitions, we have to format it with a filesystem. The most commonly used filesystem is ext3 (in unix that is)
mkfs.ext3 /dev/hda1