update-smart-drivedb (8)

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

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.

-v

verbose output

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

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

smartctl(8), smartd(8).

This manual page was written by Hannes von Haugwitz <[email protected]>.