running smart in OpenSuse 13.2 - or on Gparted-Live DVD

[Maze]

hello dear php-freaks

 

 

at the moment i am installing and investigating.

 

i have several notebooks here.

 

 

i install linux and  besides these tasks - i test several notebooks.

 

 

i need to test harddrives.

 

question:  how to run smartmonttools on opensuse

i found out that this package is one of the best ones http://www.smartmontools.org/

is the package allready installed on opensuse 13.2?


i need to run it to check the healthy of the hdd

 

btw: is smart - allready included in the gparted-Live-DvD

[QuickOldCar]

question:  how to run smartmonttools on opensuse

is the package allready installed on opensuse 13.2?

 

 

You need to install it, showed you commands other post

sudo apt-get install smartmontools

i need to run it to check the healthy of the hdd

 

 

For some good tools any os is hirens boot cd

http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd

http://www.hirensbootcd.org/download/

 

btw: is smart - allready included in the gparted-Live-DvD

 

 

No it's not, you can see what packages they include on their page, scroll down.

http://gparted.org/livecd.php

 

There is no magical way software fixes failing harddrives, just to see them broken, wipe data, format, partition them, etc.

If the harddrive is giving issues I suggest copy the data before you can't.

 

I usually do the freeze trick for bad ones long enough to copy the data or find a harddrive the same and swap the platters or logic board.

[jeffreyappel]

Use this command:

smartctl -l selftest <device>