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Howto enable SMART on a disk

Submitted by specialj on Wed, 2008-10-22 02:30.

I’ve recently been enabling the monitoring of SMART via Munin. Most of the disks had SMART enabled, presumably thought the BIOS setting. When I came across one that wasn’t I realized I didn’t know how to enable it except through BIOS. Since this machine was located remotely I quickly figured out how to enable it via this command:

  • smartctl -s on /dev/sdX

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