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SmartMonTools: How can I know if there is any smartctl test running on my hard disk?

I am testing a hard disk with SmartMonTools. Hard disk status prior to the testings (only one short test performed days ago): $ sudo smartctl -l selftest /dev/sda smartctl 6.2 2013-07-26 r3841 [i686-linux-3.16.0-30-generic] (local build) Copyright…
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Linux - Repairing bad blocks on a RAID1 array with GPT

The tl;dr: how would I go about fixing a bad block on 1 disk in a RAID1 array? But please read this whole thing for what I've tried already and possible errors in my methods. I've tried to be as detailed as possible, and I'm really hoping for some…
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according to SMART hard disk is not broken, but I have errors in dmesg

Sometimes I have strange troubles booting my computer (which runs Debian). So I issued "dmesg" command. In its output I saw a lot of errors. However, when I run extended SMART test on hard disks (using "smartctl -t long /dev/sda" command), the…
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How to get smartd to ignore an HDD?

I have an external HDD which does not report SMART information properly (it gives nonsense results). As such, the smartd daemon (part of smartmontools) keeps giving false alarms on how the device might be failing. In /etc/smartmontools/smartd.conf…
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Monitor disk health using smartd (in smartmontools) on a high availability software RAID 1 server

I have a server with three identical SATA/600 3TB drives: /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc. The drives are partitioned, using GPT with three partitions each: 1 MB: Reserved partition for boot loader 1 GB: RAID1 /dev/md0 ( ext2 ( /boot ) ) 3 TB: RAID1…
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Are there any tools available to store SMART data over time?

I'd like to start storing the SMART data over time and see any trends based on disk ID/serial number. Something that would let me, for example just get the smart information from disks once a day and put it in a database. Is there already a tool…
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S.M.A.R.T shows high Load_Cycle_Count | Why and how to prevent the number from increaseing?

i just realized that some of my HDD's have a huge Load_Cycle_Count when reading out their S.M.A.R.T data. Some are short before failing and i am asking myself why this is the case and if there is anything i can do to prevent them from…
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Unable to enable SMART support for external hard drive

I use my recently bought 1T Seagate Backup Plus Slim external hard disk ID 0bc2:ab24 Seagate RSS LLC (NTFS filesystem) as a backup tool. I want to run the Smartmontools software on this disk, but when I tried to enable it using smartctl -s on -d…
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SMART health-test and status

I have an external USB-drive which is giving me the following output on running the command $ smartctl /dev/sdb -H on it: SMART Status not supported: Incomplete response, ATA output registers missing SMART overall-health self-assessment test…
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NVMe errors diagnostics

I would like to understand why I get the below mails about S.M.A.R.T. of my new NVMe drive. DMESG $ dmesg --ctime | grep -i nvm [Mon Aug 8 10:48:31 2022] nvme nvme0: pci function 0000:3d:00.0 [Mon Aug 8 10:48:31 2022] nvme nvme0: missing or…
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smartd only send email on attribute change

I setup smartd to send me mail reports in case my disks fail. Unfortunately I am being spammed each day by the same attribute with the same (not changing) value: The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon: Device: /dev/sdb [SAT], 1…
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Can a disk be made to identify specific pending sectors?

smartd will happily log messages like this: Sep 2 12:33:59 Watt smartd[438]: Device: /dev/sda, 2 Offline uncorrectable sectors Sep 2 12:34:01 Watt smartd[438]: Device: /dev/sdc, 16 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors Sep 2 12:34:01 Watt…
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Linux-image generates samsung nvme errors

After upgrade from kernel 5.10 to 5.14 and now to 5.15.3. There are errors increased in smart after every boot in Samsung 970 Evo nvme disk (and most likely others Samsung's nvmes) like this one: Error Information Log Entries: 41 <- increased…
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Random EXT4 FS errors

I'm having a wired problem in my laptop. It works fine but almost every hour the screen freezes. When I force the shutdown and start it again, I see problems similar to this: The only solution I found is turning over the laptop for few seconds…
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is there a way to get detailed information about HDD in linux

In 2013 I used a program that analyzes the HDD and gives detailed and deep information about the hard disk. However, that program, CrystalDiskInfo, only works on Windows. Is there a GUI that is similar to the CrystalDiskInfo which displays the…
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