Scrutiny is an open-source tool that monitors the SMART health status of your hard drives and solid-state drives. In this tutorial, we'll show you how to install Scrutiny on MXLinux Latest by following a few simple steps.
Before we begin, make sure you have the following:
Open a terminal window by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T or by searching for "Terminal" in the applications menu.
Update the package list by running the following command:
sudo apt update
Install the necessary dependencies by running the following command:
sudo apt install git golang-go smartmontools
Clone the Scrutiny repository from Github by running the following command:
git clone https://github.com/AnalogJ/scrutiny
Change into the Scrutiny directory by running the following command:
cd scrutiny
Build Scrutiny by running the following command:
go build .
Install Scrutiny by running the following command:
sudo ./scrutiny --install
This will copy the scrutiny binary to the /usr/local/bin directory and create a scrutiny.service file in the /lib/systemd/system/ directory.
Start the Scrutiny service by running the following command:
sudo systemctl start scrutiny.service
You can confirm that the service is running by checking its status:
sudo systemctl status scrutiny.service
If everything was successful, you should see a status message that says "active (running)".
Enable Scrutiny to start automatically at boot time by running the following command:
sudo systemctl enable scrutiny.service
This will create a symbolic link to the scrutiny.service file in the /etc/systemd/system/ directory, which will be used to start the service at boot time.
Congratulations, you have successfully installed and setup Scrutiny on MXLinux Latest. You can now use this tool to monitor the health status of your hard drives and solid-state drives.
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