xboxboy Posted April 5, 2009 Report Share Posted April 5, 2009 Hello all, I've been trying to monitor the health of my hard drives, Once bitten twice shy. I have installed smartmontools, as this appears to be the tool of choice for modern drives, and there doesn't appear to be a wester digital linux tool. Upon installing smartmontools, I was told: Edit /etc/smartd.conf and add uncomment the DEVICESCAN option and set email to recieve alerts. I have one boot drive, sdc and a raid array which I guess must be sda and sdb? Can someone please help me with this? On the smartmontools web site it shows a GUI, is this available in linux? I sure hope so. I've looked through my menus and I cannot see smartmontools anywhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tux99 Posted April 5, 2009 Report Share Posted April 5, 2009 (edited) smartmontools doesn't have GUI included, there is a separate GUI app called GSmartControl, but I can't see it in the Mandriva repositories. On the GSmartControl website ( http://gsmartcontrol.berlios.de/home/index.php/en/Downloads ) it says: Mandriva Linux: Starting with Mandriva Linux 2009.1, GSmartControl is available in Mandriva Linux. You may use urpmi gsmartcontrol or rpmdrake to install it. Additionally, packages are available at http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/alex_sh/ To find the device names of all drives you have you could for example run the following command on a console as root: fdisk -l 2>/dev/null|grep "^Disk /dev/[h|s]" Edited April 5, 2009 by tux99 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xboxboy Posted April 5, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2009 Tux, thanks heaps for that reply! Very much appreciated. # fdisk -l 2>/dev/null|grep "^Disk /dev/[h|s]" Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes Disk /dev/sdb: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes Disk /dev/sdc: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes So I was right, my raid array consists of sda and sdb. Perhaps I need to wait for 2009.1......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tux99 Posted April 5, 2009 Report Share Posted April 5, 2009 (edited) Perhaps I need to wait for 2009.1......... Why? at the link I gave you above there are 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 packages too: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/alex_sh/ They are just not in the official Mandriva repos, but you can still download and install them yourself. Edited April 5, 2009 by tux99 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xboxboy Posted April 5, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 5, 2009 Thanks Tux. I will look into doing that. Sometimes easyurpmi makes us feel lazy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xboxboy Posted April 6, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2009 Thanks Tux, I know have a GUI for using the SMART capabilities. Quick question if anyone knows, I have two disks, /dev/dm-1 and /dev/dm-0, I assume these are due to my raid array. My physical three disks show up perfectly otherwise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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