[CentOS] smartctl question

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> I had a drive failing on a server. I've replaced it. The old drive was
> /dev/sdb; the new one's /dev/sdd. The manpage and googling are failing me
> - anyone know how to tell smartd to stop trying to read /dev/sdb (which
> I've pulled, and is sitting here on my desk)?  I don't need the garbage in
> the logs, and no, I can't just reboot the server, since it's a home
> directory server....
>
Following myself up, I just tried a simple service smartd restart, and
I'll see if that worked. But if anyone's got other ideas - I do *not* want
to have this last after a reboot, though, because I assume sdx will
change.

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