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+==========================================================
+smartmontools - S.M.A.R.T. utility toolset for Darwin/Mac
+OSX, FreeBSD, Linux, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and Windows.
+==========================================================
+
+$Id: README 4986 2019-12-01 22:04:31Z samm2 $
+
+== HOME ==
+The home for smartmontools is located at:
+    
+    http://www.smartmontools.org/
+
+Please see this web site for updates, documentation, and for submitting
+patches and bug reports.
+
+You will find a mailing list for support and other questions at:
+
+    https://listi.jpberlin.de/mailman/listinfo/smartmontools-support
+
+
+== COPYING ==
+Copyright (C) 2002-9 Bruce Allen
+Copyright (C) 2004-18 Christian Franke
+
+This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
+Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later
+version.
+
+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License (for
+example COPYING).  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+
+
+== CREDITS ==
+See AUTHORS file.
+
+
+== OVERVIEW ==
+smartmontools contains utilities that control and monitor storage
+devices using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology
+(SMART) system build into ATA/SATA and SCSI/SAS hard drives and
+solid-state drives.  This is used to check the reliability of the
+drive and to predict drive failures.
+
+
+== CONTENTS ==
+The suite contains two utilities:
+
+smartctl is a command line utility designed to perform S.M.A.R.T. tasks
+	 such as disk self-checks, and to report the S.M.A.R.T. status of
+	 the disk.
+
+smartd   is a daemon that periodically monitors S.M.A.R.T. status and
+         reports errors and changes in S.M.A.R.T. attributes to syslog.
+
+
+== OBTAINING SMARTMONTOOLS ==
+
+Source tarballs
+---------------
+
+http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartmontools/files/
+
+SVN
+---
+
+svn co http://svn.code.sf.net/p/smartmontools/code/trunk/smartmontools smartmontools
+
+This will create a subdirectory called smartmontools containing the code.
+
+To instead get the 5.38 release:
+
+svn co http://svn.code.sf.net/p/smartmontools/code/tags/RELEASE_5_38/sm5 smartmontools
+
+You can see what the different tags are by looking at
+http://sourceforge.net/p/smartmontools/code/HEAD/tree/tags/
+
+== BUILDING/INSTALLING SMARTMONTOOLS ==
+
+Refer to the "INSTALL" file for detailed installation instructions.
+
+== GETTING STARTED ==
+
+To examine SMART data from a disk, try:
+  smartctl -a /dev/sda
+See the manual page 'man smartctl' for more information.
+
+To start automatic monitoring of your disks with the smartd daemon,
+try:
+  smartd -d
+to start the daemon in foreground (debug) mode, or
+  smartd
+to start the daemon in background mode.  This will log messages to
+SYSLOG.  If you would like to get email warning messages, please set
+up the configuration file smartd.conf with the '-m' mail warning
+Directive.  See the manual page 'man smartd' for more information.