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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.smartmontools.org/

A HDD health program.

I find it essential. I think.

• This is part of the smartmontools suite.

• 2016-12-01 – 6.5-1 on Windows 10 64bit
• 2016-03-30 – 5.43 on Slackware 14.1
• 2016-03-26 – 6.2 on Lubuntu 14.04.4 LTS

• I vaguely knew about smartmontools before Lubuntu, but I don’t think I really used it.

2016-12-01 – 6.5-1 ∞

The 32bit setup can install the 64bit program.

This is a commandline program. It works exactly like the linux version..

smartctl.exe -C -t long /dev/hda

2016-03-30 – 5.43 ∞

smartctl 5.43 2012-06-30 r3573 [i686-linux-3.10.17-smp] (local build)

I installed this from the official Slackware repository.

It seems to work just fine.

2016-03-26 – 6.2 ∞

I don’t know if this came with Lubuntu (version not recorded), or if I installed it from its official repository.

smartctl 6.2 2013-07-26 r3841 [x86_64-linux-3.13.0-76-generic] (local build)

...

smartmontools release 6.2 dated 2013-07-26 at 17:38:20 UTC
smartmontools SVN rev 3841 dated 2013-07-26 at 17:38:57
smartmontools build host: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
smartmontools build configured: 2014-02-28 12:32:43 UTC
smartctl compile dated Feb 28 2014 at 12:32:59
smartmontools configure arguments:  '--prefix=/usr' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-initscriptdir=no' '--with-docdir=/usr/share/doc/smartmontools' '--enable-drivedb' '--enable-savestates' '--enable-attributelog' '--with-savestates=/var/lib/smartmontools/smartd.' '--with-attributelog=/var/lib/smartmontools/attrlog.' '--with-exampledir=/usr/share/doc/smartmontools/examples/' '--with-drivedbdir=/var/lib/smartmontools/drivedb' '--with-selinux' 'CXXFLAGS=-fsigned-char -Wall -O2' 'CFLAGS=-fsigned-char -Wall -O2'

I used it extensively, calling it from scripts.

Usage/Troubleshooting ∞

on Windows ∞

(Windows)

• Make sure you run an admin command prompt.
• If security is running, allow smartctl to access the raw drives.

• You refer to drives just as with Linux, e.g. with /dev/sdx

Enabling SMART ∞

\smartctl  --smart=on  --offlineauto=on  --saveauto=on  /dev/sdx

-t long stuck at 10% remaining ∞

Try:

smartctl  /dev/sdx  -t select,0-max