On Wed, 24 Jan 2018 01:59:34 -0000
"William Mattison" <mattison.computer(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
Good evening,
(f26; Gnome) This past spring, with a lot of help from this list, I
replaced the dying hard drive on my home workstation. But when I use
the "disks" tool to check the health of the new hard drive,
smartmontools continues to report test data from the old drive. I've
looked at the smartmontools web site, but I don't see a way of
telling smartmontools to update itself to the new drive. I'm a home
user with no real sys.admin., OS, or hardware training. So please
spell it out clearly, in detail:
How do I make smartmontools (and the disks tool) aware of the hard
drive replacement and monitor the new hard drive properly?
So, if you run
smartctl -a /dev/sd[disk letter]
as root you get output from a non-existent disk? That doesn't make
sense. I don't find a program on my system called disks, and the
smartmontools package definitely has no program called disks.
Step 1.
Run df
Step 2.
find the device that you want to monitor, /dev/sd?
Step 3.
As root, run
smartctl -a /dev/sd?