smartmontools Documentation Page

Documentation

In this section we provide documentation upon basic and general understanding of smartmontools. Have a look on the FAQ Page too, where you find information concerning more specific issues.

• Manual pages of smartmontools
• SMART attributes
• Tutorials and articles about smartmontools
• References on SMART and ATA/ATAPI standards

Smartmontools manual pages

If you are having trouble understanding the output of smartctl or smartd, please first read the manual pages installed on your system:

man 8 smartctl
man 8 smartd
man 5 smartd.conf

Here are on-line versions of the smartmontools man pages:

• smartctl manual page
• smartd manual page
• smartd.conf manual page

Note that these are the manual pages for the current version of smartmontools in the developers CVS repository; they might not correspond to the (possibly older) version of smartmontools installed on your system. So the manual pages installed on your system should be regarded as definitive for your installation.

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SMART attributes

• SMART Attribute Annex, Jim Hatfield (Seagate Technology) to T13 Technical Committee on September 30, 2005.
• Wikipedia about SMART attributes

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Tutorials and articles about smartmontools and S.M.A.R.T.

If you'd like to know more about SMART, then the following references may be helpful:

• Monitoring Hard Disks with SMART (Linux Journal, Jan 2004)
• Soyez Smart (Francais) from GNU Linux Magazine France n°68,
• Vorbeugen statt Crash (Deutsch) from LinuxUser 2004/10
• Crash Prevention (English version of above) from Linux Magazine Dec 2004
• Wikipedia articles about SMART: English, Deutsch, Español, Français, Italiano, Japanese, Nederlands, Polski, Português, Russian, Slovenčina, Svenska

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