Smart Daemon

SMART

Install 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