Is there a way to tell smartd to say run smartd long test once a week, say Sunday and run small tests every half and hour or a hour, dunno what is good practise but going with this at the moment. I have enough space in / so I could use something like /var/log/smart and have the output in .json or something which is readable.
$ df -h /
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda7 641G 36G 573G 6% /
I am running smartmontools 7.0 as can be seen -
$ sudo smartctl --version
smartctl 7.0 2018-12-30 r4883 [x86_64-linux-5.3.0-3-amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-18, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
smartctl comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free
software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License; either
version 2, or (at your option) any later version.
See http://www.gnu.org for further details.
smartmontools release 7.0 dated 2018-12-30 at 14:47:55 UTC
This is from https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/smartmontools
I did see in the manpage that there is support for json as an experimental feature but doesn't say much except for -
~$ man smartctl | grep json
-j, --json[=cgiosuv]
'json.KEY1[INDEX2].KEY3 = VALUE;'.
Looking forward to know more. I could just make the directory in /var/log/ as smart but how to make sure that the messages will go /var/log/smart ?
Another point would it need some space in userspace /home/shirish or having space in / and swap which is around 60GB is enough or do need to make in /home also ?
$ free -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 23Gi 3.9Gi 11Gi 282Mi 7.7Gi 18Gi
Swap: 59Gi 0B 59Gi
