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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.
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6 $Id: README 3949 2014-07-13 17:23:40Z chrfranke $
9 The home for smartmontools is located at:
11 http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
13 Please see this web site for updates, documentation, and for submitting
14 patches and bug reports.
16 You will find a mailing list for support and other questions at:
18 http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/smartmontools-support
22 Copyright (C) 2002-9 Bruce Allen <smartmontools-support@lists.sourceforge.net>
23 Copyright (C) 2004-14 Christian Franke <smartmontools-support@lists.sourceforge.net>
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
30 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License (for
31 example COPYING). If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
35 This code was originally developed as a Senior Thesis by Michael Cornwell
36 at the Concurrent Systems Laboratory (now part of the Storage Systems
37 Research Center), Jack Baskin School of Engineering, University of
38 California, Santa Cruz. http://ssrc.soe.ucsc.edu/
42 smartmontools contains utilities that control and monitor storage
43 devices using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology
44 (SMART) system build into ATA/SATA and SCSI/SAS hard drives and
45 solid-state drives. This is used to check the reliability of the
46 drive and to predict drive failures.
50 The suite contains two utilities:
52 smartctl is a command line utility designed to perform S.M.A.R.T. tasks
53 such as disk self-checks, and to report the S.M.A.R.T. status of
56 smartd is a daemon that periodically monitors S.M.A.R.T. status and
57 reports errors and changes in S.M.A.R.T. attributes to syslog.
60 == OBTAINING SMARTMONTOOLS ==
65 http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartmontools/files/
70 svn co http://svn.code.sf.net/p/smartmontools/code/trunk/smartmontools smartmontools
72 This will create a subdirectory called smartmontools containing the code.
74 To instead get the 5.38 release:
76 svn co http://svn.code.sf.net/p/smartmontools/code/tags/RELEASE_5_38/sm5 smartmontools
78 You can see what the different tags are by looking at
79 http://sourceforge.net/p/smartmontools/code/HEAD/tree/tags/
81 == BUILDING/INSTALLING SMARTMONTOOLS ==
83 Refer to the "INSTALL" file for detailed installation instructions.
87 To examine SMART data from a disk, try:
91 for SCSI disks. See the manual page 'man smartctl' for more
94 To start automatic monitoring of your disks with the smartd daemon,
97 to start the daemon in foreground (debug) mode, or
99 to start the daemon in background mode. This will log messages to
100 SYSLOG. If you would like to get email warning messages, please set
101 up the configuration file smartd.conf with the '-m' mail warning
102 Directive. See the manual page 'man smartd' for more information.