$ smartctl

bash: smartctl: command not found

$ locate smartctl

/usr/sbin/smartctl

/usr/share/man/man8/smartctl.8.gz

$ /usr/sbin/smartctl

Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

ERROR: smartctl requires a device name as the final command-line argument.

Use smartctl -h to get a usage summary

$ /usr/sbin/smartctl -h

[Contents of '-h']

$ /usr/sbin/smartctl -at long /dev/hda

smartctl version 5.38 [...]

Smartctl open device: /dev/hda failed: No such file or directory

$ /usr/sbin/smartctl -at long /dev/sda

smartctl version 5.38 [...]

Smartctl open device: /dev/sda failed: Permission denied

$ su

Password:

# smartctl

bash: smartctl: command not found

# /usr/sbin/smartctl -at long /dev/sda

smartctl version 5.38 [...]

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===

Model Family: Western Digital Caviar SE family

Device Model: WDC WD800JB-00JJA0

Serial Number: WD-WMAM94197887

Firmware Version: 05.01C05

User Capacity: 80,026,361,856 bytes

Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]

ATA Version is: 6

ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated

Local Time is: Tue May 13 13:39:40 2008 CDT

SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.

SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===

SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:

Offline data collection status: (0x84) Offline data collection activity

was suspended by an interrupting command from host.

Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.

Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed

without error or no self-test has ever

been run.

Total time to complete Offline

data collection: (2460) seconds.

Offline data collection

capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.

Auto Offline data collection on/off support.

Suspend Offline collection upon new

command.

Offline surface scan supported.

Self-test supported.

Conveyance Self-test supported.

Selective Self-test supported.

SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering

power-saving mode.

Supports SMART auto save timer.

Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.

No General Purpose Logging support.

Short self-test routine

recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.

Extended self-test routine

recommended polling time: ( 35) minutes.

Conveyance self-test routine

recommended polling time: ( 5) minutes.

SCT capabilities: (0x003f) SCT Status supported.

SCT Feature Control supported.

SCT Data Table supported.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16

Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:

ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE

1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0

3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 164 163 021 Pre-fail Always - 2775

4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 1054

5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0

7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0

9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 090 090 000 Old_age Always - 7326

10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 051 Pre-fail Always - 0

11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0012 100 100 051 Old_age Always - 0

12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 842

194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 110 086 000 Old_age Always - 33

196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0

197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0

198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0

199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0

200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0009 200 200 051 Pre-fail Offline - 0

SMART Error Log Version: 1

No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1

Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error

# 1 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 7326 -

# 2 Extended offline Aborted by host 90% 7325 -

# 3 Short offline Completed without error 00% 2531 -

# 4 Extended offline Aborted by host 90% 2531 -

SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1

SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS

1 0 0 Not_testing

2 0 0 Not_testing

3 0 0 Not_testing

4 0 0 Not_testing

5 0 0 Not_testing

Selective self-test flags (0x0):

After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.

If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

=== START OF OFFLINE IMMEDIATE AND SELF-TEST SECTION ===

Sending command: "Execute SMART Extended self-test routine immediately in off-line mode".

Drive command "Execute SMART Extended self-test routine immediately in off-line mode" successful.

Testing has begun.

Please wait 35 minutes for test to complete.

Test will complete after Tue May 13 14:14:40 2008

Use smartctl -X to abort test.