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smartmontools - S.M.A.R.T. utility toolset for Darwin/Mac
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OSX, FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and Windows.
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$Id$
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== HOME ==
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The home for smartmontools is located at:
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http://www.smartmontools.org/
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Please see this web site for updates, documentation, and for submitting
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patches and bug reports.
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You will find a mailing list for support and other questions at:
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https://listi.jpberlin.de/mailman/listinfo/smartmontools-support
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== COPYING ==
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Copyright (C) 2002-9 Bruce Allen
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Copyright (C) 2004-18 Christian Franke
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
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Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later
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version.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License (for
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example COPYING). If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
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== CREDITS ==
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See AUTHORS file.
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== OVERVIEW ==
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smartmontools contains utilities that control and monitor storage
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devices using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology
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(SMART) system build into ATA/SATA and SCSI/SAS hard drives and
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solid-state drives. This is used to check the reliability of the
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drive and to predict drive failures.
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== CONTENTS ==
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The suite contains two utilities:
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smartctl is a command line utility designed to perform S.M.A.R.T. tasks
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such as disk self-checks, and to report the S.M.A.R.T. status of
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the disk.
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smartd is a daemon that periodically monitors S.M.A.R.T. status and
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reports errors and changes in S.M.A.R.T. attributes to syslog.
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== OBTAINING SMARTMONTOOLS ==
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Source tarballs
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---------------
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartmontools/files/
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SVN
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---
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svn co http://svn.code.sf.net/p/smartmontools/code/trunk/smartmontools smartmontools
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This will create a subdirectory called smartmontools containing the code.
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To instead get the 5.38 release:
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svn co http://svn.code.sf.net/p/smartmontools/code/tags/RELEASE_5_38/sm5 smartmontools
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You can see what the different tags are by looking at
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http://sourceforge.net/p/smartmontools/code/HEAD/tree/tags/
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== BUILDING/INSTALLING SMARTMONTOOLS ==
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Refer to the "INSTALL" file for detailed installation instructions.
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== GETTING STARTED ==
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To examine SMART data from a disk, try:
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smartctl -a /dev/sda
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See the manual page 'man smartctl' for more information.
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To start automatic monitoring of your disks with the smartd daemon,
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try:
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smartd -d
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to start the daemon in foreground (debug) mode, or
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smartd
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to start the daemon in background mode. This will log messages to
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SYSLOG. If you would like to get email warning messages, please set
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up the configuration file smartd.conf with the '-m' mail warning
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Directive. See the manual page 'man smartd' for more information.
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