Comments on: Monitoring Hard Drive Health on Linux with smartmontools

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:44:05 +0000

You can pass sudo smartctl -l selftest /dev/sda as argument to watch in order to follow its progress.

By: Log message (hard drive related)

Log message (hard drive related) — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 13:43:43 +0000

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By: Terje

Terje — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 11:54:21 +0000

I haven’t been able to get it to send a mail either, but logwatch manages just fine.

Wondering if I have the same problem you do, however I haven’t been able to locate any kind of error message in the logs, where exactly do you find yours?

By: conexiva.net » S.M.A.R.T en Linux con smartmontools

conexiva.net » S.M.A.R.T en Linux con smartmontools — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 01:24:30 +0000

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By: btmorex

btmorex — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:15:19 +0000

That’s odd that it works when you mount something. I know that having a partition mounted is not a requirement though, as I run tests daily against drives that are almost never mounted.

By: dunk

dunk — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 10:15:59 +0000

hi Mark,
i’m still not 100% sure about this but from my initial testing of smartmontools it appears smartctl needs at least one disk partition to be mounted otherwise it just stays at the “90% completed” point for some time until smartctl eventually gives up and kills the test with a message like this:
“# 7 Short offline Interrupted (host reset) 90% 2455 -”

if you have a partition on your disks, try mounting it before the test.
if not, maybe it is possible to mount the disk it’s self as a raw device? (i don’t know. haven’t tested it yet.)

dunk.

By: wobbe

wobbe — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:48:13 +0000

Hi, check out:

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1404978

By: btmorex

btmorex — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:33:34 +0000

What is cciss_vol_status actually checking? One possibility is that the drive is completely dead. There would be no S.M.A.R.T. status, but cciss_vol_status would know that there was supposed to be a drive there so it could determine it was dead.

As for the one that’s failing, probably cciss_vol_status isn’t checking S.M.A.R.T. status (I have no idea because I haven’t used it).

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:51:19 +0000

Here’s an oddity. I’m testing smartmontools vs. cciss_vol_status on an HP with external array, and getting some inconsistent results.
I know that one drive has failed.
I know that another drive is in jeopardy (which is why I’m testing on the box I’m testing on).
Running smartctl, I see in my health report that the second drive is in danger, but it makes no mention of the failed drive.
Then, running cciss_vol_status, I see that the first drive has failed, but no mention is made of the second.

I’ll post this in the cciss_vol_status forum as well, but I find it interesting that the two utilities show such different results!

By: SMARTmontools « denispyr

SMARTmontools « denispyr — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 09:04:10 +0000

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