S.M.A.R.T. on Arch Linux
As usual Arch Linux does not install a binary that you might not need to have. So we need to run: [root@archt20 ~]# pacman -S smartmontools Then simply: [bart@archt20 ~]$ smartctl -a /dev/sda It is also worth to install hdparm [root@archt20 ~]# pacman -S hdparm [root@archt20 ~]# hdparm /dev/sda /dev/sda: multcount = 16 (on) IO_support = 1 (32-bit) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 256 (on) geometry = 60801/255/63, sectors = 976773168, start = 0