The smartmontools package contains utility programs (smartctl, smartd) to control/monitor storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System (S.M.A.R.T.) built into most modern ATA and SCSI disks.
Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if LFS or dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the books.
Download (HTTP): https://downloads.sourceforge.net/smartmontools/smartmontools-7.4.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 178d31a6ff5256c093227ab45a3f52aa
Download size: 1 MB
Estimated disk space required: 27 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU
cURL-8.11.0 or Lynx-2.9.2 or Wget-1.25.0 (download tools), and GnuPG-2.4.6 (encrypted hard disks)
Install smartmontools by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ --docdir=/usr/share/doc/smartmontools-7.4 && make
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root
user:
make install
See the embedded comments in /etc/smartd.conf
for detailed instructions on
customizing the smartd daemon.