Comment 19 for bug 391576

This is a wish:

On a competing proprietary OS, a default installation exploits S.M.A.R.T capabilities of disks to ensure stable disk-usage. I think to fix bug 1, it is necessary to have smartmontools to be installed and activated on default installations (both desktop/laptop and server variants).

Before I switched to ubuntu I succeeding in convincing the SuSE people to have that package installed and activated on a default system, see https://bugzilla.novell.com:443/show_bug.cgi?id=201715, further see bug 103681 regarding default activation.