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

[MJang]

On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 23:15 -0800, John Jason Jordan 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.

To find the right package:

$ apt-cache search smartctl

which should lead to the following message:
smartmontools - control and monitor storage systems using S.M.A.R.T.

Then 

$ sudo apt-get install smartmontools

Thanks,
Mike