December 2018
Beginner
826 pages
22h 54m
English
Content preview from Linux Administration Cookbook
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How it works...
SMART reads information by querying the /dev/ device you target and displaying what it's learned about a SMART-compatible device.
When we're using hdparm, we're actually running tests regardless of our filesystem, because the program reads from the disk directly—because of this, real-world speed may be different.