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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 4120 2015-08-27 16:12:21Z samm2 $
9 The home for smartmontools is located at:
11 http://www.smartmontools.org/
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
23 Copyright (C) 2004-15 Christian Franke
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/>.
39 smartmontools contains utilities that control and monitor storage
40 devices using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology
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.
47 The suite contains two utilities:
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
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.
57 == OBTAINING SMARTMONTOOLS ==
62 http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartmontools/files/
67 svn co http://svn.code.sf.net/p/smartmontools/code/trunk/smartmontools smartmontools
69 This will create a subdirectory called smartmontools containing the code.
71 To instead get the 5.38 release:
73 svn co http://svn.code.sf.net/p/smartmontools/code/tags/RELEASE_5_38/sm5 smartmontools
75 You can see what the different tags are by looking at
76 http://sourceforge.net/p/smartmontools/code/HEAD/tree/tags/
78 == BUILDING/INSTALLING SMARTMONTOOLS ==
80 Refer to the "INSTALL" file for detailed installation instructions.
84 To examine SMART data from a disk, try:
86 See the manual page 'man smartctl' for more information.
88 To start automatic monitoring of your disks with the smartd daemon,
91 to start the daemon in foreground (debug) mode, or
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.