Monitor Hard drive temperature via command line

The hard drive temperature can be monitored via command line. For that you need to install the command binary hddtemp.

In redhat servers you can install using yum.

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yum install hddtemp

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In other server like CENTOS, FEDORA and FreeBSD you need to install it from source file with the steps given below.

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>> Download the DB file

cd /etc

wget http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/hddtemp/hddtemp.db

>> Download the source

cd /usr/local

wget http://download.savannah.nongnu.org/releases/hddtemp/hddtemp-0.3-beta7.tar.gz

tar -zxvf hddtemp-0.3-beta7.tar.gz

cd hddtemp-0.3-beta7

make

make install

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That’s all. You have done It

Typical Output of hddtemp command.

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[root@testserver ~]# hddtemp -uC /dev/hda
/dev/hda: SAMSUNG SP0411N: 32°C

[root@system101 ~]# hddtemp /dev/hda
/dev/hda: SAMSUNG SP0411N: 27°C

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