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How to get HDD temperature in Linux
10 April 2022 by Luke Reynolds
Depending on your server room conditions it may be important to be informed
about the hard drive temperatures inside of your servers. System administrators may
use Bash and cron to write a simple script that can alert them about sudden
temperature change. Various command line tools such as inxi or hddtemp can
check your HDD temperature and be used inside of a Bash script.
In this tutorial, you will see how to get the temperature of a hard drive disk on a
Linux system. The installation instructions and command examples below will get
you started.
In this tutorial you will learn:
• How to install inxi and hddtemp in Linux
• How to use inxi to get HDD temperature
• How to use hddtemp to get HDD temperature
• How to write an HDD temperature monitoring Bash script
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How to get HDD temperature in Linux
So�ware Requirements and Linux Command Line Conventions
Category Requirements, Conventions or So�ware Version Used
System Any Linux distro
So�ware inxi, hddtemp
Privileged access to your Linux system as root or via the sudo
Other
command.
# – requires given linux commands to be executed with root
privileges either directly as a root user or by use of sudo command
Conventions
$ – requires given linux commands to be executed as a regular non-
privileged user
How to install HDD temperature tools in Linux
The tools we will be using are not usually included by default on most Linux distros.
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You can use the appropriate command below to install inxi and hddtemp with your
systemʼs package manager.
To install inxi and hddtemp on Ubuntu, Debian, and Linux Mint:
$ sudo apt install inxi hddtemp
To install inxi and hddtemp on Fedora, CentOS, AlmaLinux, and Red Hat:
$ sudo dnf install inxi hddtemp
To install inxi and hddtemp on Arch Linux and Manjaro:
$ sudo pacman -S inxi hddtemp
Get HDD temperature command line examples
First, you can determine the path of your block devices by using commands like
fdisk or lsscsi .
$ sudo fdisk -l
OR
$ lsscsi -g
Hard drives will have a path in the format of /dev/sdX for example.
Example 1 Using the inxi tool now we can determine the temperature of all hard
drives with the following command.
$ sudo inxi -xD
Drives: HDD Total Size: 75.5GB (70.3% used) ID-1: /dev/sda model: HTS721060G9
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ID-2: USB /dev/sdb model: TransMemory size: 15.5GB temp: 0C
The hard drive temperature of /dev/sda is 35C. Note that the above command
needs to be run with root administrative privileges.
Example 2 Or to check the temperature of a speci�c block device, just specify that
device in your command. For example, this command checks the temperature of
/dev/sdb .
$ sudo inxi -xD /dev/sdb
Example 3 The same information can be achieved through the hddtemp
command. Here is how to use it.
$ sudo hddtemp /dev/sda
/dev/sda: HTS721060G9SA00: 36°C
Get HDD temperature Bash script
If your intention is to wire a monitoring script to regularly check hard driveʼs
temperature, you can use the below script as your starting point:
1 #!/bin/bash
2
3 temperature=$(hddtemp /dev/sda | cut -d : -f3 | sed 's/[^0-9]*
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# REPORT when hard drive's temperature is above 50C
if [ $temperature -ge 50 ]; then
echo "ALERT: hard drive's temperature is above: $temperatu
fi
Closing Thoughts
In this tutorial, you saw how to get the temperature of a hard drive disk on a Linux
system. This is facilitated by the inxi and hddtemp commands, which can easily be
installed via package manager on major Linux distros. You also learned how to adapt
these commands into a Bash script to regularly monitor HDD temperature and
report any major temperature spikes.
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