[NTLUG:Discuss] smartd?

[Chris Cox]

John K. Taber wrote:
> At startup time, my FC3 tries to start smartd, the disk monitoring
> daemon. The startup messages always report smartd failure, and naturally
> there is a failure at shutdown too.
> 
> What is going on? Do I need smartd, and if so how do I find what causes
> its failure to start? 
> 
> If I don't need it, I would like to remove it from startup.

It's not needed.  Nice to have when it works though.  But it is
finicky in its current state.

SMART monitoring will let you know (suprisingly well) when your
drive is going to die... also lets you get temperature readings
and some other useful stuff from the drive.