Disable daemon of Smartd to speed up boot process.

What is Smartd: Smartd does hard drive reliability monitoring.


Turn it to OFF

Example OS: CentOS 4.2 with Kernel 2.6.9-22 EL

• # chkconfig smartd --list
• smartd    0:off   1:off   2:on   3:on   4:on   5:on   6:off

• # chkconfig smartd off
• # chkconfig smartd --list
• smartd    0:off   1:off   2:off   3:off   4:off   5:off   6:off