Motivation

The original hddtemp is not maintained far too long. Due to that it was removed from the official repositories of Ubuntu (since 22.04) and Debian (since 12). This tool can be used instead to print the temps:

$ sudo hddtemp-lt
/dev/sda:  WDC WD10EFRX-68FYTN0  28
/dev/sdb:  KINGSTON SHFS37A240G  30

Requirements

• smartctl (smartmontools package)
  • NVMe support: smartctl v6.5+

Usage

hddtemp-lt

Show temps for all sd and nvme disks.

hddtemp-lt /dev/sda ..

Show temps for selected disks

Options:

-h, --help

Show usage

-q

Suppress warnings

-u, --units=C|F

Use Celsius (default) or Fahrenheit scale

-V, --version

Show version

Output is aligned into columns. Device models can contain spaces like WDC WD10EFRX-68FYTN0 or Samsung SSD 950 PRO 256GB so fields are separated with at least two spaces.

Installation

Fetch the archive either from releases or from the development branch, extract it and put hddtemp-lt under /usr/local/bin/

In case you downloaded the script alone from github by a raw link, be sure to manually make it executable.

If you’d like point a hddtemp symlink to it:

sudo ln -s hddtemp-lt /usr/local/bin/hddtemp