Please note the following marginal Attributes: Warning: This result is based on an Attribute check. SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

:~# smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sdb // For SATA drive Example:5 Display Overall health of the Disk :~# smartctl -H /dev/sdbĬopyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, = START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION = Example:4 Display Detailed Smart info for the disk :~# smartctl -a /dev/sdb // For IDE drive Use option -s with argument 'on' to enable it. Example:3 Disable Smart Capability for the disk :~# smartctl -s off /dev/sdb Last Two lines in above output shows that SMART capability is enable for the device.Įxample:2 Enable Smart Capability for the disk :~# smartctl -s on /dev/sdbĬopyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, = START OF ENABLE/DISABLE COMMANDS SECTION =

SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. User Capacity: 320,072,933,376 bytes ĭevice is: In smartctl database ĪTA Version is: ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 4 Smartctl 6.2 r3841 (local build)Ĭopyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, = START OF INFORMATION SECTION = Installation of Smartcl in Ubuntu $ sudo apt-get install smartmontools Installation of Smartcl in Redhat / CentOS # yum install smartmontoolsįor Ubuntu $ sudo /etc/init.d/smartmontools startįor CentOS & RHEL # service smartd start chkconfig smartd on Example:1 Check Whether Smart Capability is enabled or not for the disk :~# smartctl -i /dev/sdb

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