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UPDATE-SMART-DRIVEDB(8) UPDATE-SMART-DRIVEDB(8)

NAME

update-smart-drivedb - update smartmontools drive database

SYNOPSIS

update-smart-drivedb [-v] [DESTFILE]

DESCRIPTION

update-smart-drivedb updates /usr/share/smartmontools/drivedb.h or DESTFILE from smartmontools SVN repository.
It tries to download first from the current branch and then from trunk. The tools used for downloading are either curl(1), wget(1) or lynx(1).
The old file is kept if the downloaded file is identical (ignoring the differences in Id string) otherwise it is moved to drivedb.h.old.

OPTIONS

-v
verbose output

EXAMPLES

# update-smart-drivedb
/usr/share/smartmontools/drivedb.h updated from branches/RELEASE_5_43_DRIVEDB

EXIT STATUS

The exit status is 0 if the database has been successfully updated. If an error occurs the exit status is 1.

SEE ALSO

smartctl(8), smartd(8).

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Hannes von Haugwitz <hannes@vonhaugwitz.com>.
May 15, 2013 smartmontools