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@@ -0,0 +1,98 @@ +========================================================== +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. |