Monitor you CPU and HardDisk Temperature from Terminal in Ubuntu/Linux Mint

Today's trick is about how to monitor your CPU and HardDisk Temperature from Command Line in Ubuntu/Linux Mint. hddtemp and acpi are the two utilities which are used to check HardDisk and CPU Temperature respectively.
Both hddtemp and acpi are small application and already present in Ubuntu repository, you need to install them before use. Lets see the installation and usage of hddtemp and acpi one by one.

About hddtemp

hddtemp utility let you know the temperature of your hard drive by reading Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) information on drives that support this feature. Only modern hard drives have a temperature sensor. hddtemp supports reading S.M.A.R.T. information from SCSI drives too. hddtemp can work as simple command line tool or as a daemon.

How to install hddtemp

To install hddtemp in Ubuntu/Linux Mint, open terminal (Ctrl + Alt + t) and run the following command

$ sudo apt-get install hddtemp

How do I check disk temperature?

To see temperature of /dev/sda, run the following command

$ sudo hddtemp /dev/sda
/dev/sda: SAMSUNG HM321HI: 41°C

Note: If your harddisk temperature is more than 60°C, then consider some cooling options immediately.

About acpi

acpi is a tool or utility which is mostly used to check the battery status (check out the TUTORIAL on acpi), but you can used it to monitor CPU temperature if you want.

How to install acpi

To install acpi in Ubuntu/Linux Mint, open terminal (Ctrl + Alt + t) and run the following command

$ sudo apt-get install acpi

How do I check CPU temperature?

To see CPU temperature, run the following command

$ acpi -V
Battery 0: Full, 100%
Battery 0: design capacity 3785 mAh, last full capacity 3202 mAh = 84%
Adapter 0: on-line
Thermal 0: ok, 70.0 degrees C
Thermal 0: trip point 0 switches to mode critical at temperature 110.0 degrees C
Thermal 0: trip point 1 switches to mode passive at temperature 86.0 degrees C
Cooling 0: LCD 15 of 15
Cooling 1: Processor 0 of 10
Cooling 2: Processor 0 of 10
Cooling 3: Processor 0 of 10
Cooling 4: Processor 0 of 10

That's it.
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