X-Git-Url: https://git.proxmox.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=6d20c011416592a689c10aa87aa0b16481c28824;hb=bcade6c14a06cfc842b41df91fdc5b9577cd68f1;hp=aa7278ec1215cefc809806ae50b3a0b79a36d98f;hpb=4d68e6c82ac9302ab2c5e63bb3f4a350f5941d83;p=mirror_smartmontools-debian.git diff --git a/README b/README index aa7278e..6d20c01 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -3,12 +3,12 @@ smartmontools - S.M.A.R.T. utility toolset for Darwin/Mac OSX, FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and Windows. ========================================================== -$Id: README 2844 2009-07-18 12:59:21Z chrfranke $ +$Id: README 4120 2015-08-27 16:12:21Z samm2 $ == HOME == The home for smartmontools is located at: - http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ + http://www.smartmontools.org/ Please see this web site for updates, documentation, and for submitting patches and bug reports. @@ -19,7 +19,8 @@ You will find a mailing list for support and other questions at: == COPYING == -Copyright (C) 2002-9 Bruce Allen +Copyright (C) 2002-9 Bruce Allen +Copyright (C) 2004-15 Christian Franke This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free @@ -27,30 +28,19 @@ Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License (for -example COPYING); if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 -Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. +example COPYING). If not, see . == CREDITS == -This code was originally developed as a Senior Thesis by Michael Cornwell -at the Concurrent Systems Laboratory (now part of the Storage Systems -Research Center), Jack Baskin School of Engineering, University of -California, Santa Cruz. http://ssrc.soe.ucsc.edu/ +See AUTHORS file. == OVERVIEW == smartmontools contains utilities that control and monitor storage devices using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology -(S.M.A.R.T.) system build into ATA and SCSI Hard Drives. This is used -to check the reliability of the hard drive and to predict drive -failures. smartmontools Version 5.x is designed to comply to the -ATA/ATAPI-5 specification (Revision 1). Future releases of -smartmontools (Versions 6.x and 7.x) will comply with the ATA/ATAPI-6 -and ATA/ATAPI-7 specifications. - -This package is meant to be an up-to-date replacement for the -ucsc-smartsuite and smartsuite packages, and is derived from that -code. +(SMART) system build into ATA/SATA and SCSI/SAS hard drives and +solid-state drives. This is used to check the reliability of the +drive and to predict drive failures. == CONTENTS == @@ -69,37 +59,31 @@ smartd is a daemon that periodically monitors S.M.A.R.T. status and Source tarballs --------------- -http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=64297 +http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartmontools/files/ SVN --- -svn co https://smartmontools.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/smartmontools/trunk/smartmontools smartmontools +svn co http://svn.code.sf.net/p/smartmontools/code/trunk/smartmontools smartmontools This will create a subdirectory called smartmontools containing the code. To instead get the 5.38 release: -svn co https://smartmontools.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/smartmontools/tags/RELEASE_5_38/sm5 smartmontools +svn co http://svn.code.sf.net/p/smartmontools/code/tags/RELEASE_5_38/sm5 smartmontools You can see what the different tags are by looking at -http://smartmontools.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/smartmontools/tags/ +http://sourceforge.net/p/smartmontools/code/HEAD/tree/tags/ == BUILDING/INSTALLING SMARTMONTOOLS == Refer to the "INSTALL" file for detailed installation instructions. -See the "WARNINGS" file for reports of hardware where these utilities -might cause serious problems such as lockups. - == GETTING STARTED == To examine SMART data from a disk, try: - smartctl -a /dev/hda -for ATA disks, or smartctl -a /dev/sda -for SCSI disks. See the manual page 'man smartctl' for more -information. +See the manual page 'man smartctl' for more information. To start automatic monitoring of your disks with the smartd daemon, try: