smartmontools for Debian
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Disabling the service
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By default smartmontools service is starting automatically.

To disable the service

  on Systemd:

    sudo systemctl disable smartmontools.service

  on SysV:

    sudo update-rc.d smartmontools disable


update-smart-drivedb
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There were number of tickets discussing removal of "update-smart-drivedb"
utility (#894534, #824795, #804299, #85404). Maintainer's position is to
provide this utility. If admin (i.e. root) decides to service they system
then they can download drivedb manually using browser or a download
utility. Upstream provides "update-smart-drivedb" as a _glove_ to protect
admin from mistakes and since 7.0 script uses GPG to ensure integrity of
the downloaded database. Maintainer assumes that admins understand risks of
using "update-smart-drivedb" utility and that updating drivedb is better to
be done with this utility rather than without it.

Maintainer advises to update drivedb _only when necessary_.


Notes
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Don't use enable_smart for any disk monitored by smartd, this is likely to
cause problems, especially for SATA (see e.g.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=365027).

Package Maintainers and system administrators can put scripts to be run
when smartd detects an error into /etc/smartmontools/run.d. These
scripts will be run by smartd-runner using run-parts(8). The script will
receive the filename of the file containing the errormessage as first
parameter. See /etc/smartmontools/run.d/10mail for an example.

Upstream recommends running short self tests every day and long self tests once
per week.

Please read http://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/Warnings

 -- Guido Guenther <agx@sigxcpu.org>, Wen, 03 May 2006 21:47:00 +0000