Check Linux CPU And Hard Disk Temperature

Insight: Tutorial To Check Linux CPU And Hard Disk Temperature

In this tutorial post, We will show you the method to check CPU and hard disk temperature on Linux using various third party tools.

Let’s check CPU temperature on Linux using lm_sensors & hddtemp tools.

Check Linux CPU And Hard Disk Temperature

Install lm_sensor & hddtemp in Linux

For Ubuntu/Debian based operating systems:

$ sudo apt install lm-sensors hddtemp

For Fedora operating system:

$ sudo dnf install lm-sensors hddtemp

For Arch Linux:

$ sudo pacman -S lm-sensors hddtemp

For RedHat & CentOS:

$ sudo yum install lm-sensors hddtemp

For OpenSuse:

$ sudo zypper sensors hddtemp

After installing, You need to configure it at first. Run the following command to configure lm-sensors in Linux.

$ sudo sensors-detect

Now, To view or check the temperature:

$ sensors

To print temperature in Fahrenheit :

$ sensors -f

To monitor the CPU temperature of your Linux system in real time:

$ watch sensors

To display Hard-disk (HDD) temperature:

$ sudo hddtemp /dev/sda1

How To Install Psensor In Linux

Let’s go through the another GUI based tool called “psensor” to monitor temperature in Linux. psensor is a simple and easy to use graphical hardware temperature monitor for Linux.
For Ubuntu:

sudo apt install psensor

For other Linux based operating systems, visit this link.

Psensor can monitor:

• the temperature of the motherboard and CPU sensors (using lm-sensors).
• the temperature of the NVidia GPUs (using XNVCtrl).
• the temperature of ATI/AMD GPUs
• the temperature of the Hard Disk Drives (using hddtemp or libatasmart).
• the rotation speed of the fans (using lm-sensors).
• the CPU usage (since 0.6.2.10 and using Gtop2)