On 7/3/05, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am So, den 03.07.2005 schrieb Dotan Cohen um 16:43: > > > Thank you for your advise. I do not seem to have a command smartctl. > > Even man smartctl gives me nothing. I went googling and came to the > > comclusion that I simply have to install it, but I thought that I'd > > ask here first. Without a man page I don't want to go messing things > > up. > > > > If I do need to install it, to where should it be installed? /usr/bin? > > yum install smartmontools > (it is a Fedora Core 4 package) > > > Dotan Cohen > > Alexander > > > -- > Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG http://pgp.mit.edu 0xB366A773 > legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html > Fedora Core 2 GNU/Linux on Athlon with kernel 2.6.11-1.35_FC2smp > Serendipity 16:44:57 up 7 days, 23:37, load average: 0.11, 0.20, 0.18 > > > BodyID:97941302.2.n.logpart (stored separately) > Alex, I think I've gone completely back to newbie-land. I don't know where to continue from here with smart. I think that I remember a post where there was mention of another disk checking utility but STFA didn't help much- probably because I don't remember the command name! So I googled for linux commands, but pages like http://www.ss64.com/bash/ didn't have a command for checking to disks. Also, there was still no man for smart: [root@localhost ~]# smartctl -t long /dev/hdb smartctl version 5.33 [i386-redhat-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ SMART support is: Unavailable - Packet Interface Devices [this device: CD/DVD] don't support ATA SMART A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options. [root@localhost ~]# man smart No manual entry for smart [root@localhost ~]# Dotan Cohen http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/11/a-ha.php A-Ha Song Lyrics
