Monitor Disk Health

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Monitor Disk Health

Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) is built into many ATA-3 and later ATA, IDE and SCSI-3 hard drives. The purpose of SMART is to monitor the reliability of the hard drive and predict drive failures, and to carry out different types of drive self-tests.

To enable 

config setprop smartd status enabled

To manually check disks

Generate report 

smartctl -t short /dev/hdc (1 minute)
smartctl -t long /dev/hdc (1 hour)

View report 

smartctl -a /dev/hdc

http://www.linuxmanpages.com/man8/smartd.8.php
http://www.captain.at/howto-linux-smartmontools-smartctl.php

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