[PLUG] SMART Client

Russell Senior seniorr at aracnet.com
Thu Sep 18 23:39:02 UTC 2003


>>>>> "Josh" == Josh Orchard <josh at emediatedesigns.com> writes:

Josh> It also appears that the smartmontools project are better tools.
Josh> Does anyone know about these?  Should I install those?  I don't
Josh> see any way to test the drive while there are mounted
Josh> partitions.  Or so it seems.  I may be confused here just want
Josh> some good pointers if someone knows.

I just installed the tools (I'm in Debian-land, so it was an apt-get)
and typed:

  smartctl -a /dev/hda | less


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