Monitor storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System
Smartmontools Download and Installation
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Smartmontools 7.3 was released 2022-02-28, see NEWS, ChangeLog and tickets for details.
Release files are signed with OpenPGP/GPG key ID FF3AEFF5, fingerprint: 0C95 77FD 2C4C FCB4 B9A5 9964 0A30 812E FF3A EFF5.
The public key block is available here: Trac Browser, SVN Repository, Key Servers (see the FAQ for older keys).
After installation or booting from a Live-CD, you can read smartmontools man pages and try out the commands:
man smartd.conf
man smartctl
man smartd
sudo /usr/sbin/smartctl -s on -o on -S on /dev/sda
sudo /usr/sbin/smartctl -x /dev/sda
Note that the default location for the manual pages are /usr/share/man/man5 and /usr/share/man/man8. If 'man' doesn’t find them, then you may need to add /usr/share/man to your MANPATH environment variable.
The Windows package provides preformatted man pages in .html and *.txt format.
Install precompiled package
Precompiled packages are available for many distributions, see the Packages page.