If you are still using spinning harddrive, concerned about the health of your harddrive and using Linux/GNU, in particular, Ubuntu 16.04, you are in the right place Running HDSentinel is quite simple in Linux. You need to download the file Hard Disk Sentinel LINUX (FREE) from http://www.hdsentinel.com/download.php After extracting the file into your preferred directory, we export the path which is the directory using the command 'export' : export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/bin . Then, we can preserve the path enviroment to run HDSentinel using administrative sudo command: sudo -E env "PATH=$PATH" HDSentinel . Alternatively, we may need to edit the sudoers file to include the /path/to/bin using the command: sudo -E visudo and add /path/to/bin in the line below Defaults mail_badpass like this : Defaults secure_path="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/snap/bin : /path/to/bin " The change above in /etc/sudoers is di
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