Using HDSentinel in Ubuntu 16.04

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 differentated in light green (and yellow highlight) from the original in dark green. To double check the path in environment, use the command : sudo echo $PATH.

We are done and ready to run the command to check the health of our spinning Harddisk: sudo HDSentinel .

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