Carlos E. R. wrote: WOW, TNX Carlos for the effort!! I have trimmed most of quotes for brevity.
The Friday 2004-10-15 at 16:44 +0200, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
I have enabled smartctl to perform checks by issuing the command, as root:
smartctl -s on /dev/hdb and smartctl -o /dev/hdb
I see you are still confused. Ok, I'll try to explain a bit more. The above line is not needed, Ho come as according to the man page this are listed under the section of SMART FEATURE ENABLE/DISABLE COMMANDS to enable it and allow offline testing. Perhaps it is only needed if the /etc/smartd.conf file is used?
I have never used it. What I do is:
Manual testing: ----------------------------- Aaah,so just because I have SMART enabled doesn't mean it is automatically going to check the devices, unless of course the /etc file is called by a cron job?
Launching short test:
nimrodel:~ # smartctl --test=short /dev/hda Tnx, I was unsure of the command syntax after reading man pages.
After about one minute, I can see the results, using this command:
nimrodel:~ # smartctl --log=selftest /dev/hda Tnx, I was unsure of the command syntax after reading man pages.
[SNIP]
That's all :-)
Nothing else needed, although new brains would be a good idea as mine are getting fried with all the concentrating and remembering they are doing. :) -- The SMARTer Little Helper ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Currently using SuSE 9.0 Professional with KDE 3.1 Licenced Windows user ========================================================================