Hi there. I am doing some work with 'smartctl' in (CLI) Konsole environment. When I pass 'smartctl -t long /dev/sda' the following is displayed: smartctl 7.4 2023-08-01 r5530 [x86_64-linux-6.7.6-1-default] (SUSE RPM) Copyright (C) 2002-23, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF OFFLINE IMMEDIATE AND SELF-TEST SECTION === Sending command: "Execute SMART Extended self-test routine immediately in off-line mode". Drive command "Execute SMART Extended self-test routine immediately in off-line mode" successful. Testing has begun. Please wait 10 minutes for test to complete. Test will complete after Fri Mar 1 16:32:28 2024 CST Use smartctl -X to abort test. Thinkcentre-M57p:~> I do not understand why this dumps back to prompt so quickly (in the Konsole instance). Ok, it is because "smartctl" sends the test off to the drives firmware. Is the "smartctl" application running? I cannot see a process output by reviewing 'ps -aux' either. How can I see the test status? Yes, I have been reviewing 'man smartctl' as shown below. Thinkcentre-M57p:~> ps -aux | grep "smartctl" root 9367 0.0 0.0 6432 3200 pts/2 S+ 15:54 0:00 man smartctl pj 11326 0.0 0.0 6592 2176 pts/4 S+ 16:41 0:00 grep --color=auto smartctl Thinkcentre-M57p:~> I review the test results with passing '# smartctl -iA -d ata -T verypermissive /dev/sda' *but* I want to know how to view the entire log file of the test though like I can see when 'GSmartControl' 'extended test' is run in (GUI). In 'smartctl' 'man page' it has '-l TYPE' but no type displays the full robust log from what I can see in 'GSmartControl' so far in my mind. Can you tell me more about what is going on here and how to review the full log? -Thanks