'smartctl' is the command line tool to get info and control the S.M.A.R.T. capable drive. To start with you would probably want to query the status of your drive. This command will print all S.M.A.R.T. info about the disk. sudo smartctl -a /dev/hda (You can figure out what hard drives your have by, Looking in your dmesg output Traversing your /proc/ide tree Or looking in /proc/partitions, thi...
Last modified: 07:27, 28 Jul 2007 by Goeko
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I am a Unix/Linux Professional here in the Twin Cites in Minnesota. I have been using Linux/Unix since 1986, starting out using AT&T System V R4 Unix System. I have pretty much been using Unix since then. I have run the following Linux's day2day at different times. Red Hat Debian Ubuntu Slackware IPCop In addition I have used a variety of Unix's since then including (but not limited...