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Questions tagged [smartmontools]

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How to check/fix nvme health?

I'm running debian stable with a 2 x nvme Raid 1. Here is the hardware/hoster it's running on https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ex62-nvme?country=us Almost every second day mdadm monitoring reports a fail event and leaves the array…
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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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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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Is it possible to get S.M.A.R.T Monitoring for Debian 9 into Slack?

I've recently set Debian 9 up on a home server and I would like to run some S.M.A.R.T checks against my HDD's and then get alerted if there are any issues. Ideally I'd like the alerts to come into my Slack instance as I have that connected to my…
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smartd output to screen, not email

I'm trying to get smartd working; it is determined that messages will be sent via email via 'mail' which I've never used. But I recall that a few years ago I had smartd sending it's warnings directly to the screen via a popup text box. I'm trying…
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Best practices to enable SMART disk notifications on a Linux workstation?

I enabled SMART notifications on my laptop running Debian. Basically I just want to get a notification pop up when something goes wrong on a disk. I don't want to get an email, I think a notification is better indicated on the workstation where I…
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How to use smartctl in practice?

I was casually using smartctl to peek on my disks without really diving in. After reading a comment on Hacker News I decided to schedule daily short and weekly long tests. How to actually make good use of them? When I look at the results of smartctl…
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Cannot enable smartctl Auto Offline Data Collection

smartctl --offlineauto=on /dev/sda [-d TYPE] will not enable Auto Offline Data Collection as reported by smartctl -c /dev/sda which shows Auto Offline data collection on/off support Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled no matter how I try to…
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Why does ZFS not report disk as degraded?

S.M.A.R.T. has found an unrecoverable read-error on one of my disks, but zpool status lists all disks as ONLINE (I.E. not DEGRADED). Do you know why might that be? I though ZFS would know of any errors as soon as anyone... Do I need to run a scrub…
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SMART error (CurrentPendingSector) and (OfflineUncorrectableSector)

I have been receiving the following error messages every day for several months now, and I do not know how to stop receiving these messages. CurrentPendingSector This message was generated by the smartd daemon running on: host name: myhost …
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Why smartd need database?

Do smartd need the database? or smartctl needs the database? I saw smart tool github keep updating database: https://github.com/smartmontools/smartmontools/labels/drivedb In my understanding, smartd will scan all disks then why does it need a…
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Smartd how to wake disks only for scheduled scans

I am using smartd to monitor my disks in Ubuntu and have it configured to run a short scan daily at 2am and a long test 3am every Saturday morning: /dev/sda -a -n standby -o on -S on -s (S/../.././02|L/../../6/03) -m [email protected] I understand that…
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SmartMonTools: tests get cancelled without any traces

I am testing hard disks with SmartMonTools under Ubuntu 20.04. Tests for some hard disks are not working - they disappear without leaving any warnings or errors. Hard drive status before the test (note the time Sun Mar 13 16:25:12 2022…
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Can I recover a 500GB Seagate Momentus with bad sectors?

I've received a Seagate 2.5" 5400rpm 500gb HDD that was throwing up a Boot configuration error post some windows updates. I've tried the following on it and nothing seems to work: First step: I tried Windows repair to re-install the bootloader but…
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Can I determine the real lifetime with “Error occurred at power lifetime: 19132h” and "Power_On_Hours 0h" in smartctl?

I just bought a "new" and very cheap hdd online. I used some kinda usb3.0 hdd box to connect to my PC. By running smartctl, I can see the following outputs 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 Error…
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