Maze Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 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 opensusei 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QuickOldCar Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffreyappel Posted April 11, 2015 Share Posted April 11, 2015 Use this command: smartctl -l selftest <device> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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