check hard disk rpm or rotation speed

Mon, 23 Sep 2019 01:00:50 +0000

Lot of times you want to check the disk rpm, especially on the servers to check if it is 7.2K or 10K or 15K rpm disk. How do you do this from linux terminal. Here it is :

sginfo -g /dev/<device>

Note that sginfo comes from sg3-utils.

script to get hard disk health in fedora/ubuntu

Mon, 01 Dec 2014 12:12:08 +0000

First, put this in a script.

#!/bin/bash

#Change as appropriate
HDD=sda

export sub="SmartCtl data for HDD"
echo 'To: &lt;Your Email&gt;
Sub: [Cron] $sub
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Disposition: inline

&lt;html&gt;&lt;pre&gt;'


echo '&lt;style&gt;

hr {
    display: block;
    height: 1px;
    border: 0;
    border-top: 1px solid #ccc;
    margin: 1em 0;
    padding: 0;
}
&lt;/style&gt;
'

echo '&lt;h2&gt;Errors on HDD:&lt;/h2&gt;'
echo '&lt;hr&gt;'
sudo smartctl -l error  /dev/$HDD
echo '&lt;h2&gt;Health of HDD:&lt;/h2&gt;'
echo '&lt;hr&gt;'
sudo smartctl -H  /dev/$HDD

echo '&lt;h2&gt;Detailed info&lt;/h2&gt;'
echo '&lt;hr&gt;'
sudo smartctl -a -d ata /dev/$HDD

echo '&lt;h2&gt;Journalctl output for smartd&lt;/h2&gt;'
echo '&lt;hr&gt;'

if [[ -f /etc/fedora-release ]]
then
journalctl -x --show-cursor -u smartd --since=yesterday
else
#This is for Ubuntu.. still using dmesg

dmesg -T -l err,crit,alert,emerg

fi


echo '&lt;h2&gt;All Details&lt;/h2&gt;'
echo '&lt;hr&gt;'

sudo smartctl --xall /dev/$HDD


echo "Thanks for using Amit Agarwal's script"
echo '&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/html&gt;'

and then put this in cron:

Hdd on Amit Agarwal Linux Blog

check hard disk rpm or rotation speed

script to get hard disk health in fedora/ubuntu