Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Dale <dalek1967@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how touchy is /var really? And how to keep tabs on a new disk?
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:05:39
Message-Id: 48A24148.1080301@bellsouth.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] how touchy is /var really? And how to keep tabs on a new disk? by Michael Higgins
1 Michael Higgins wrote:
2 > On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:18:39 +0200
3 > Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de> wrote:
4 >
5 >
6 >> On Dienstag, 12. August 2008, Michael Higgins wrote:
7 >>
8 >>
9 >>> As for the new disk, it is only new to this machine. It's SCSI and
10 >>> sits on its own controller, reiserfs format. I think perhaps it
11 >>> originally was intermittently failing in a higher-speed controller
12 >>> and got swapped out. Is there a way I can keep regularly checking
13 >>> it for performance issues, should any crop up?
14 >>>
15 >> smartd
16 >>
17 >
18 > Is this in portage?
19 >
20 > Cheers,
21 >
22 >
23
24 I think you are looking for sys-apps/smartmontools.
25
26 Dale
27
28 :-) :-)