Documentation

In this section we provide documentation upon basic and general understanding of smartmontools. Have a look on the FAQ Page too, where you find information concerning more specific issues.

Smartmontools device support

Smartmontools work on different operating systems. Due to OS-specific issues and also depending on the different state of smartmontools development on the platforms, device support ist not the same for all OS platforms.

Smartmontools can work also on Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices, if the appropiate functions are available there, e.g. on Dlink DNS-323 with extLink: fonz firmware. Read the details in our NAS article in smartmontools wiki.


Smartmontools manual pages

If you are having trouble understanding the output of smartctl or smartd, please first read the manual pages installed on your system:

man 8 smartctl
man 8 smartd
man 5 smartd.conf

Here are on-line versions of the smartmontools man pages:

Note that these are the manual pages for the current version of smartmontools in the developers SVN repository; they might not correspond to the (possibly older) version of smartmontools installed on your system. So the manual pages installed on your system should be regarded as definitive for your installation.


SMART attributes


Tutorials and articles about smartmontools and S.M.A.R.T.

If you'd like to know more about SMART, the following references may be helpful.


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