[PLUG] SMART Client

Marvin J. Kosmal lamsokvr at xprt.net
Thu Sep 18 23:44:01 UTC 2003


On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 23:38, Russell Senior wrote:
> >>>>> "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
> 

What is the name of the package????

TIA


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