On 03/15/17 14:55, Robert Nichols wrote:
On 03/15/2017 01:10 PM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
On 03/15/17 13:48, alan@clueserver.org wrote:
Any thoughts on making sense of smrtctl are appreciated.
Gnome-disks will give you clearer information. Run the tests using that instead.
Perhaps if I had the right command. The man page only shows three options.
Perhaps if you would indicate what command you actually ran, ... .
The manpage for smartctl 6.5 has a lot more than three options. Either "-A" or (more inclusive) "-a" should be relevant.
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I think you missed "Gnome-disks will give you clearer information. Run the tests using that instead." Which I was responding to.
I tried: # gnome-disks --block-device /dev/sdd
I had asked about smartctl but it was suggested that gnome-disks might be easier to use and I was responding to that.
I agree that smartctl has an extensive man page,