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smartmontools-7.5

control and monitor storage systems using SMART

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Description

The smartmontools package contains two utility programs (smartctl and smartd) to control and monitor storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology System (SMART) built into most modern ATA and SCSI hard disks. In many cases, these utilities will provide advanced warning of disk degradation and failure.

Package information

Ports path
sysutils/smartmontools
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Martin Ziemer <horrad@horrad.de>
Categories
sysutils
Available flavors
None listed
Only for architectures
aarch64, amd64, arm, i386, mips64, mips64el, powerpc, powerpc64, riscv64, alpha, hppa, sparc64, m88k, sh

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