DisKMonitor

KDE tools to monitor SMART devices and MDRaid health status. Features a full application and a Plasma applet.

Installation

Arch Linux

DisKMonitor is available on the AUR:

• diskmonitor for the latest release
• diskmonitor-git for the current master branch

Kubuntu

Thanks to @hleroy, DiskMonitor is also available as a PPA for KUbuntu users. You can install the latest version using:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hleroy/kde-diskmonitor
sudo apt update
sudo apt install diskmonitor

Compilation from sources

Dependencies

• Qt
  • qt5-base
  • qt5-declarative
• KF5
  • kwindowsystem
  • kiconthemes
  • knotifications
  • kxmlgui
  • plasma-framework
• UDisks2 >= 2.1

Additionally, cmake and extra-cmake-modules are required to build the package.

Install Dependencies for Ubuntu

sudo apt install cmake extra-cmake-modules qtbase5-dev qtdeclarative5-dev qt5ct qtdeclarative5-dev libkf5windowsystem-dev libkf5iconthemes-dev libkf5notifications-dev libkf5xmlgui-dev libkf5plasma-dev

Build

mkdir build && cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$(kf5-config --prefix) \
       -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
       -DKDE_INSTALL_USE_QT_SYS_PATHS=ON

make

Features

Application

• Display S.M.A.R.T. attributes for harddrives supporting it
• Start and monitor progress of S.M.A.R.T. Short and Extended self test

• Display properties for MDRaid arrays
• Start and monitor progress of data scrubbing on MDRaid arrays

Applet

• Display basic health status for storage units
• Can be used on the desktop, on a panel or as a systray icon (see systray settings to activate)
• Use KDE notification for health status change
• Highly configurable interface

Getting involved

If you like this software, contribution is welcome! You can submit new features or bugfixes using github pull request. You can also help translating DisKMonitor in your language using Transifex at https://www.transifex.com/orgpapylhomme/diskmonitor/

Test health status change

The easiest way to test the monitoring is by using a "fake" raid array. The idea is to create a small array using loop devices :

# you may need to load the 'loop' module
modprobe loop

# then create two files for use as block devices
dd if=/dev/zero of=/root/raid/r0 bs=1M count=20
dd if=/dev/zero of=/root/raid/r1 bs=1M count=20

# attach the files to loop devices
losetup /dev/loop0 /root/raid/r0
losetup /dev/loop1 /root/raid/r1

# to check everything went ok
losetup -a

# now create a new raid array
mdadm --create /dev/md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/loop0 /dev/loop1

# check the raid status
cat /proc/mdstat

Then you can fail and restore raid devices at will :

# fail the loop0 device
mdadm --manage /dev/md0 -f /dev/loop0

# restore the raid by removing and readding the device
mdadm --manage /dev/md0 -r /dev/loop0
mdadm --manage /dev/md0 -a /dev/loop0