S.M.A.R.T. hard drive monitoring

Originally by frontalot from linkstationwiki.org

1. Install the SMART monitoring tools:

apt-get install smartmontools

2. I recommend enabling the SMART daemon which will automatically monitor the LinkStation hard drive and report any serious problems. Edit /etc/default/smartmontools :

start_smartd=yes

3. Smartd, the SMART daemon, will now automatically initiate on boot and monitor the hard drive.

4. Now edit the smartd config file, /etc/smartd.conf :

comment out: DEVICESCAN add: /dev/hda -a -H -m root

If you use a Kurobox Pro or related platform, dont forget to use the following option (-d marvell), else smartd wont recognize your drives:

/dev/hda -d marvell -a -H -m root

5. This enables monitoring of /dev/hda only and reports any hardware failures via mail to root. You can also use the following commands:

report drive information: smartctl -i /dev/hda report drive health: smartctl -Hc /dev/hda

6. You can display the temperature of your internal drive (the last number is the current temperature):

smartctl -a /dev/hda | grep 194

7. A more detailed listing of smartmontools commands are available at http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/6983/print.

8. For LS1 (ppc) with FreeLink Firmware, if you want to view SMART results with Webmin, you need fdisk installed. As debian PowerPC has no fdisk, simply install pmac-fdisk and create a symbolic link:

apt-get install pmac-fdisk ln -s /sbin/pmac-fdisk /sbin/fdisk