May 2017
Beginner
552 pages
28h 47m
English
Content preview from Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook - Third Edition
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Getting ready
Linux supports interacting with the drives SMART utilities via the smartmontools package. This is installed by default on most distributions. If it's not present, you can install it with your package manager:
apt-get install smartmontools
Alternatively, this command can be used:
yum install smartmontools