* install the package
* run that start-up script on boot
* AND uncomment some lines in /etc/default/smartmontools
The last step is just too much and completely unintuitive (it took me a lot of google to find out and from the forums, I am not the only one). If any, those lines should be uncommented by default. Yet, I would argue about the usefulness of that configuration file at all when one can simply not start the start-up script on boot.
To enabled SMART monitoring tool, you need to
* install the package smartmontools
* run that start-up script on boot
* AND uncomment some lines in /etc/default/
The last step is just too much and completely unintuitive (it took me a lot of google to find out and from the forums, I am not the only one). If any, those lines should be uncommented by default. Yet, I would argue about the usefulness of that configuration file at all when one can simply not start the start-up script on boot.