[PLUG] The Ubuntu Hard Drive Killing Bug Fixed (I hope)

Rogan Creswick creswick at gmail.com
Wed Jan 21 07:26:51 UTC 2009


On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:15 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:01:31 -0800
> MJang <mike at mommabears.com> dijo:
>
>> When I first saw the bug, I checked the number of cycles on my hard
>> drive with the following command:
>>
>> $ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda | grep 193
>
> I just tried this, but evidently smartctl is not installed. So I did
> "sudo apt-get install smartctl," but no luck. Not in my repositories. I
> have just about every repository enabled.

apt-cache search <foo> is your friend :)

$  sudo apt-cache search smartctl
smartmontools - control and monitor storage systems using S.M.A.R.T.

that's the package you need.

--Rogan



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