Smart Daemon

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

>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