Smartctl man page is an abomination. It's so big I can't find anything about background/foreground/progress. I tried
smartctl --test=long -t offline /dev/sdg
and it tells me it can only run one test at a time. How can I run it in foreground and have it report progress? You're right the man page has become unreadable since I last used it. I
On 08/09/2017 02:06, Felix Miata wrote: think the foreground option is -C --captive but AFAIR it doesn't show anything useful apart from when it exits. You can use either -c or "-l selftest" to get the progress of the selftest. I see that the bulk of Harvey hits on Sunday, you're in my thoughts. Dave P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org