Definition: smartsuite: SMART suite - SMART utility suite for Linux SMART suite controls and monitors storage devices running the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System (S.M.A.R.T.) build into ATA and SCSI Hard Drives. This is used to check the reliability of the hard drive and predict drive failures. The suite contains two utilities: smartctl is a command line utility designed to perform simple smart tasks; smartd is a daemon that periodically monitors smart status and reports errors to syslog.
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Source: Debian 3.0r0 APT / Linux Dictionary V 0.16
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html
Author: Binh Nguyen linuxfilesystem(at)yahoo(dot)com(dot)au
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