Re: [opensuse] SMART daemon question

Roger Oberholtzer wrote:

On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 14:34 +0100, Per Jessen wrote:

Try running a selftest on the drive: smartctl -t short /dev/hdx.
Then display the results wit: h smartctl -a /dev/hdx

Is this test non-destructive in the event of a problem? Can it be done
when the disk is being used? The man page implies the 'short' test can
be done during normal operation. Anyone done that and lived to tell?

Certainly - I run a short test every day, and a long test on Sundays.


/Per

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/Per Jessen, Zürich

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