2009/9/1 Visakh <gokulda...@gmail.com>: > > Detailed information on how to use smartmontools and analyze its > output are available on following pages: > http://blog.shadypixel.com/monitoring-hard-drive-health-on-linux-with-smartmontools/ > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6983
> Smartmontool shows many such parameters - along with their > thresholds. If a parameter drops below its threshold, it indicates bad > health. Some parameters indicate impending disaster if they fall below > their threshold. Others indicate gradual degradation due to poor > environment. Anyway, its is useful for assessing and predicting > failures. I hope this becomes useful to you. Please let us know about > your experiments with it. Thanks, Goul, for these bits of information. I am travelling riight now - Onam vacation, you know :-) I will loo into these after I return and get back to you. Best -- V. Sasi Kumar Free Software Foundation of India Please see: http://swatantryam.blogspot.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For details visit the website: www.ilug-tvm.org or the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---