On Wed, 4 Mar 2015 22:41, Stanislav Brabec wrote:
Hallo.
Many years ago we decided that smartd will not enable self tests by default.
[snip reasons]
Short Self Test: Short Self Test verifies status of the hardware function. It takes several minutes.
I propose to run Short Self Test once a day.
+1, maybe as the last of 'cron.daily' or what-ever systemd calls that now.
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Long Self Test: Long Self Test (nearly for sure) performs full surface scan. It typically takes several to many hours. ... I propose to run Long Self Test once a month.
+1, also as last of 'cron.monthly'
Thank you for bringing this up to general notice.
- Yamaban Hi How will this affect SSD's and using bcache, fstrim etc? I'm assuming
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