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 smartmon‐
       tools 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 AT vonhaugwitz.com>.



smartmontools                              May 15, 2013                   UPDATE-SMART-DRIVEDB(8)