~$ sudo smartctl -A /dev/sda
smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is
http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/SMART Disabled. Use option -s with argument 'on' to enable it.
~$ sudo smartctl -s on -A /dev/sda
smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is
http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/=== START OF ENABLE/DISABLE COMMANDS SECTION ===
SMART Enabled.
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
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 0x000b 100 100 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0007 067 057 000 Pre-fail Always - 5696
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 18
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 047 047 010 Pre-fail Always - 116
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000b 253 253 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0024 253 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0
9 Power_On_Half_Minutes 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 9329h+29m
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 253 253 049 Pre-fail Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 11
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 112 112 000 Old_age Always - 42
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x000a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 2427317
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0012 058 058 000 Old_age Always - 92
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0033 253 253 010 Pre-fail Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0031 098 098 010 Pre-fail Offline - 6
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x000b 100 100 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
201 Soft_Read_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 051 Pre-fail Always - 0