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2 | smartmontools - S.M.A.R.T. utility toolset for Darwin/Mac | |
3 | OSX, FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and Windows. | |
4 | ========================================================== | |
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6b80b4d2 | 6 | $Id: README 4120 2015-08-27 16:12:21Z samm2 $ |
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7 | |
8 | == HOME == | |
9 | The home for smartmontools is located at: | |
10 | ||
6b80b4d2 | 11 | http://www.smartmontools.org/ |
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13 | Please see this web site for updates, documentation, and for submitting | |
14 | patches and bug reports. | |
15 | ||
16 | You will find a mailing list for support and other questions at: | |
17 | ||
18 | http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/smartmontools-support | |
19 | ||
20 | ||
21 | == COPYING == | |
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22 | Copyright (C) 2002-9 Bruce Allen |
23 | Copyright (C) 2004-15 Christian Franke | |
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24 | |
25 | This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it | |
26 | under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free | |
27 | Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later | |
28 | version. | |
29 | ||
30 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License (for | |
d2e702cf | 31 | example COPYING). If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. |
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32 | |
33 | ||
34 | == CREDITS == | |
293b5ab8 | 35 | See AUTHORS file. |
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36 | |
37 | ||
38 | == OVERVIEW == | |
39 | smartmontools contains utilities that control and monitor storage | |
40 | devices using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology | |
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41 | (SMART) system build into ATA/SATA and SCSI/SAS hard drives and |
42 | solid-state drives. This is used to check the reliability of the | |
43 | drive and to predict drive failures. | |
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45 | ||
46 | == CONTENTS == | |
47 | The suite contains two utilities: | |
48 | ||
49 | smartctl is a command line utility designed to perform S.M.A.R.T. tasks | |
50 | such as disk self-checks, and to report the S.M.A.R.T. status of | |
51 | the disk. | |
52 | ||
53 | smartd is a daemon that periodically monitors S.M.A.R.T. status and | |
54 | reports errors and changes in S.M.A.R.T. attributes to syslog. | |
55 | ||
56 | ||
57 | == OBTAINING SMARTMONTOOLS == | |
58 | ||
59 | Source tarballs | |
60 | --------------- | |
61 | ||
3d17a85c | 62 | http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartmontools/files/ |
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65 | --- |
66 | ||
3d17a85c | 67 | svn co http://svn.code.sf.net/p/smartmontools/code/trunk/smartmontools smartmontools |
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2127e193 | 69 | This will create a subdirectory called smartmontools containing the code. |
832b75ed | 70 | |
2127e193 | 71 | To instead get the 5.38 release: |
832b75ed | 72 | |
3d17a85c | 73 | svn co http://svn.code.sf.net/p/smartmontools/code/tags/RELEASE_5_38/sm5 smartmontools |
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74 | |
75 | You can see what the different tags are by looking at | |
3d17a85c | 76 | http://sourceforge.net/p/smartmontools/code/HEAD/tree/tags/ |
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77 | |
78 | == BUILDING/INSTALLING SMARTMONTOOLS == | |
79 | ||
80 | Refer to the "INSTALL" file for detailed installation instructions. | |
81 | ||
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82 | == GETTING STARTED == |
83 | ||
84 | To examine SMART data from a disk, try: | |
832b75ed | 85 | smartctl -a /dev/sda |
293b5ab8 | 86 | See the manual page 'man smartctl' for more information. |
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87 | |
88 | To start automatic monitoring of your disks with the smartd daemon, | |
89 | try: | |
90 | smartd -d | |
91 | to start the daemon in foreground (debug) mode, or | |
92 | smartd | |
93 | to start the daemon in background mode. This will log messages to | |
94 | SYSLOG. If you would like to get email warning messages, please set | |
95 | up the configuration file smartd.conf with the '-m' mail warning | |
96 | Directive. See the manual page 'man smartd' for more information. |