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12-03-2008, 12:37 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Apr 2006
Location: Iowa
Distribution: Debian distro family
Posts: 2,408
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don't know how to run smartmontools
I went to Synaptic to download smartmontools, but it says I already have the program. So how do I run it? I tried to find out by typing "man smartmontools," but the console said there was no manual entry for that. Smartmontools is not in my K menu.
It's pretty obvious that my HD is failing badly, but I'd like to prove it by performing tests.
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12-03-2008, 02:03 AM
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LQ 5k Club
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Oldham, Lancs, England
Distribution: Slackware64 15; SlackwareARM-current (aarch64); Debian 12
Posts: 8,311
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Look in /usr/share/doc.
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12-03-2008, 06:08 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Oct 2004
Location: Houston, TX (usa)
Distribution: MEPIS, Debian, Knoppix,
Posts: 4,727
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From the smartmontools tools package description found by KPackage in KDE 3.5.3:
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The smartmontools package contains two utility programs (smartctl and smartd) to control and monitor storage systems
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Both have man pages. I suspect smartctl will be more useful/interesting. |
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12-03-2008, 02:18 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Dec 2004
Location: Dortmund/Germany
Distribution: SuSE , Knoppix, Mandriva, Kubuntu
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Yeps, smartd is just a daemon, smartctl is the command-line-based tool. Use the manpage or go to the projects homepage
An useful tutorial in German is here. |
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