Hard Drive Monitor Script For Headless Linux Servers
Modern Hard drives have an internal mechanism called S.M.A.R.T. through which it is possible to know when a hard disk is about to fail. Wouldn’t it be nice of the server to Email you before such a failure? Overview Programs like the “mdadm” (for software RAID management) and the “Palimpsest Disk Utility” (used on the Ubuntu LiveCD), use the S.M.A.R.T information to inform you when the disk is about to or has failed....