The -a option will display all information available. Smartctl can take a lot of flags, I'll only deal with two of them: -a and -t. Also pay attention to the output from smartctl, some of the functions might not be supported if your drive is old. If not installed, you can install it with yum install smartmontools or dnf install smartmontools. This wiki entry will describe the output from the 'smartctl' tool. If you are in doubt, you can always probe the device with 'smartctl -i /dev/sda'.įedora Core automatically comes with a 'smartd' service that will email root if serious problems are detected on your disks. This example is using a ATA/PATA drive as a reference. SMART should work with IDE/ATA, SATA and SCSI drives, but the output might look different from the examples below. This wiki describes the basics you need to check your drive, for details check the man page and the smartctl homepage at.

This is a fault monitoring and testing interface that can be quite useful, both as a way to monitor the health of your disks and test them. All modern harddisks comes with S.M.A.R.T management.

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