On Wed, 24 Jan 2018 22:51:19 -0000
"William Mattison" <mattison.computer(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
The "df" command gives me this:
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bash.1[~]: df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs 8174992 0 8174992 0% /dev
tmpfs 8186908 27688 8159220 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 8186908 1808 8185100 1% /run
tmpfs 8186908 0 8186908 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda6 51475068 30103124 18734120 62% /
tmpfs 8186908 28 8186880 1% /tmp
/dev/sda3 487652 215053 242903 47% /boot
/dev/sda7 947624164 8118256 891346268 1% /home
tmpfs 1637380 24 1637356 1% /run/user/0
So, you only have a single disk in the system, /dev/sda.
[snip results]
bash.8[~]:
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This looks like the output I was getting last spring, when the old
hard drive was dying. The current drive, a new drive, was installed
at that time (late June). It's as if smartctl is at least in part
simply re-displaying results from the last run I did on the old drive
last June.
Well, the format should be the same, but surely if the drive was
failing the overall result wasn't Passed? In reading the -A option of
man smartctl, I see from the results you got that your drive is in
excellent shape. It is no where near failure.
Also, the output is basically the same whether the smartctl
parameter
is "sda", "sda3", or "sd?".
They are all defaulting to /dev/sda since it is the only disk on your
system. A question mark means an undefined single character, not a
literal question mark. In this case it is a. Things in brackets are
not meant to be literal either, but replaced by what is defined in the
brackets.
The "Disks" I was referring to is what Samuel identified.
I've never used it, so can provide no help.