Smartmontools - monitore hdd S.M.A.R.T. values via cron
A teammate at work asked me the question "how do you monitor your smart values from each device" and i could not answer him, since i do not monitor any smart values. A quick research and now i am able to present him a good answer on Monday - even with some time to evaluate it :-D. Smartmontools is the tool you have to choose. On arch, it is done with pacman.
pacman -S smartmontoolsA quick look on the official wiki and the arch wiki, i roughly created the following smartd.conf.
/dev/The file can be found at "/etc/smartd.conf". Do not forget to remove/comment out the first "DEVICESCAN". The file is well documented, so it is an easy one (hopefully ;-)). All you have to do is to add the smartd to you autostart (e.g. rc.conf). If you are using systemd, the following line is doing the job.-H -l error -l selftest -f -n standby,q -m email@for.me
sudo systemctl enable smartd.service