On 22/07/2021 21.37, mcgarrett wrote:
On July 22, 2021 at 3:56 AM Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> wrote:
mcgarrett composed on 2021-07-22 03:30 (UTC-0400):
I have been beating my head against smartctl for over two hours now. I cannot seem to get the command
"long" accepted, as the various tutorials explain. When I try to insert it, I get an error, like this:
linux1:~ # smartctl long /dev/nvme0n1
long is an argument to an option you omitted, the type of smartctl command:
smartctl -t long /dev/nvme0n1
I give up. either the fault in the machine prevents me from running the long version, or I have finally lost what's left of my mind! --doug
The command returns instantly. The execution happens inside the hard disk. The command text should say when you have to come back and query, with another command, the result of the test. Typically, several hours. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from oS Leap 15.2 x86_64 (Minas Tirith))