On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 01:46:08PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Philipp Kern wrote: > > It should likely be raised to priority=standard, which would make it part of > > the "standard system utilities" task. smartctl is relatively important for > > problem diagnosis with disk drives. > I don't think it is necessary everywhere: > > Various devices only have flash storage or storage that doesn't support SMART. That is not the standard we historically applied to priority=standard. > On desktop installs, udisks/udisks2 and the corresponding GUI parts > are more useful to the relevant persons. udisksctl does not let you initiate a SMART self-test AFAICS even though the DBus interface offers it. I guess I would want to see it installed on all non-chroot installs, hence maybe hw-detect makes more sense. If there's a SCSI/ATA disk drive, install smartmontools. Kind regards Philipp Kern
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