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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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7 | |
8 | == HOME == | |
9 | The home for smartmontools is located at: | |
10 | ||
11 | http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ | |
12 | ||
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 == | |
2127e193 | 22 | Copyright (C) 2002-9 Bruce Allen <smartmontools-support@lists.sourceforge.net> |
d2e702cf | 23 | Copyright (C) 2004-14 Christian Franke <smartmontools-support@lists.sourceforge.net> |
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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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33 | ||
34 | == CREDITS == | |
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/ | |
39 | ||
40 | ||
41 | == OVERVIEW == | |
42 | smartmontools contains utilities that control and monitor storage | |
43 | devices using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology | |
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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. | |
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48 | ||
49 | == CONTENTS == | |
50 | The suite contains two utilities: | |
51 | ||
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 | |
54 | the disk. | |
55 | ||
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. | |
58 | ||
59 | ||
60 | == OBTAINING SMARTMONTOOLS == | |
61 | ||
62 | Source tarballs | |
63 | --------------- | |
64 | ||
3d17a85c | 65 | http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartmontools/files/ |
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2127e193 | 67 | SVN |
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68 | --- |
69 | ||
3d17a85c | 70 | svn co http://svn.code.sf.net/p/smartmontools/code/trunk/smartmontools smartmontools |
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2127e193 | 72 | This will create a subdirectory called smartmontools containing the code. |
832b75ed | 73 | |
2127e193 | 74 | To instead get the 5.38 release: |
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3d17a85c | 76 | svn co http://svn.code.sf.net/p/smartmontools/code/tags/RELEASE_5_38/sm5 smartmontools |
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77 | |
78 | You can see what the different tags are by looking at | |
3d17a85c | 79 | http://sourceforge.net/p/smartmontools/code/HEAD/tree/tags/ |
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80 | |
81 | == BUILDING/INSTALLING SMARTMONTOOLS == | |
82 | ||
83 | Refer to the "INSTALL" file for detailed installation instructions. | |
84 | ||
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85 | == GETTING STARTED == |
86 | ||
87 | To examine SMART data from a disk, try: | |
88 | smartctl -a /dev/hda | |
89 | for ATA disks, or | |
90 | smartctl -a /dev/sda | |
91 | for SCSI disks. See the manual page 'man smartctl' for more | |
92 | information. | |
93 | ||
94 | To start automatic monitoring of your disks with the smartd daemon, | |
95 | try: | |
96 | smartd -d | |
97 | to start the daemon in foreground (debug) mode, or | |
98 | smartd | |
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. |