I have what sounds like a berring going bad.

Steven Vollom stevenvollom at sbcglobal.net
Fri Feb 20 23:37:42 UTC 2009


On Friday 20 February 2009 18:01:37 Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote:
> smartctl
Could you help me more, I am so lame using the shell.  Here is a view of my a 
attempts:  

The program 'smartctl' is currently not installed.  You can install it by 
typing:                                                                               
sudo apt-get install smartmontools                                              
bash: smartctl: command not found                                               
steven at Yesua:~$ sudo apt-get install smartmontools                              
[sudo] password for steven:                                                     
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steven at Yesua:~$ smartctl
smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/                        

ERROR: smartctl requires a device name as the final command-line argument.


Use smartctl -h to get a usage summary

steven at Yesua:~$ smartctl -h
smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/                        

Usage: smartctl [options] device

============================================ SHOW INFORMATION OPTIONS =====

  -h, --help, --usage
         Display this help and exit

  -V, --version, --copyright, --license
         Print license, copyright, and version information and exit

  -i, --info                                                       
         Show identity information for device                      

  -a, --all                                                        
         Show all SMART information for device                     

================================== SMARTCTL RUN-TIME BEHAVIOR OPTIONS =====

  -q TYPE, --quietmode=TYPE                                           (ATA)
         Set smartctl quiet mode to one of: errorsonly, silent, noserial   

  -d TYPE, --device=TYPE
         Specify device type to one of: ata, scsi, marvell, sat, 3ware,N

  -T TYPE, --tolerance=TYPE                                           (ATA)
         Tolerance: normal, conservative, permissive, verypermissive       

  -b TYPE, --badsum=TYPE                                              (ATA)
         Set action on bad checksum to one of: warn, exit, ignore          

  -r TYPE, --report=TYPE
         Report transactions (see man page)

  -n MODE, --nocheck=MODE                                             (ATA)
         No check if: never, sleep, standby, idle (see man page)           

============================== DEVICE FEATURE ENABLE/DISABLE COMMANDS =====

  -s VALUE, --smart=VALUE
        Enable/disable SMART on device (on/off)

  -o VALUE, --offlineauto=VALUE                                       (ATA)
        Enable/disable automatic offline testing on device (on/off)        

  -S VALUE, --saveauto=VALUE                                          (ATA)
        Enable/disable Attribute autosave on device (on/off)               

======================================= READ AND DISPLAY DATA OPTIONS =====

  -H, --health
        Show device SMART health status

  -c, --capabilities                                                  (ATA)
        Show device SMART capabilities                                     

  -A, --attributes                                                         
        Show device SMART vendor-specific Attributes and values            

  -l TYPE, --log=TYPE
        Show device log. TYPE: error, selftest, selective, directory,
                               background, scttemp[sts,hist]         

  -v N,OPTION , --vendorattribute=N,OPTION                            (ATA)
        Set display OPTION for vendor Attribute N (see man page)           

  -F TYPE, --firmwarebug=TYPE                                         (ATA)
        Use firmware bug workaround: none, samsung, samsung2,              
                                     samsung3, swapid                      

  -P TYPE, --presets=TYPE                                             (ATA)
        Drive-specific presets: use, ignore, show, showall                 

============================================ DEVICE SELF-TEST OPTIONS =====

  -t TEST, --test=TEST
        Run test. TEST: offline short long conveyance select,M-N
                        pending,N afterselect,[on|off] scttempint,N[,p]

  -C, --captive
        Do test in captive mode (along with -t)

  -X, --abort
        Abort any non-captive test on device

=================================================== SMARTCTL EXAMPLES =====

  smartctl --all /dev/hda                    (Prints all SMART information)

  smartctl --smart=on --offlineauto=on --saveauto=on /dev/hda
                                              (Enables SMART on first disk)

  smartctl --test=long /dev/hda          (Executes extended disk self-test)

  smartctl --attributes --log=selftest --quietmode=errorsonly /dev/hda
                                      (Prints Self-Test & Attribute errors)
  smartctl --all --device=3ware,2 /dev/sda
  smartctl --all --device=3ware,2 /dev/twe0
  smartctl --all --device=3ware,2 /dev/twa0
          (Prints all SMART info for 3rd ATA disk on 3ware RAID controller)
  smartctl --all --device=hpt,1/1/3 /dev/sda
          (Prints all SMART info for the SATA disk attached to the 3rd PMPort
           of the 1st channel on the 1st HighPoint RAID controller)
steven at Yesua:~$ smartctl --all /dev/hda
smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

Smartctl open device: /dev/hda failed: No such file or directory
steven at Yesua:~$ cd /medai/hda
bash: cd: /medai/hda: No such file or directory
steven at Yesua:~$ smartctl --test=long /dev/hda
smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

Smartctl open device: /dev/hda failed: No such file or directory
steven at Yesua:~$ smartctl --test=long /dev/disk
smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

Smartctl: please specify device type with the -d option.

Use smartctl -h to get a usage summary

steven at Yesua:~$

steven at Yesua:~$ df -ha
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1              14G  3.8G  9.4G  29% /
tmpfs                 251M     0  251M   0% /lib/init/rw
/proc                    0     0     0   -  /proc
sysfs                    0     0     0   -  /sys
varrun                251M  108K  251M   1% /var/run
varlock               251M     0  251M   0% /var/lock
udev                  251M  2.9M  248M   2% /dev
tmpfs                 251M   12K  251M   1% /dev/shm
devpts                   0     0     0   -  /dev/pts
fusectl                  0     0     0   -  /sys/fs/fuse/connections
lrm                   251M  2.0M  249M   1% /lib/modules/2.6.27-11-
generic/volatile
securityfs               0     0     0   -  /sys/kernel/security
/dev/sda7             110G   91G   14G  88% /media/disk
/dev/sda5              63G   51G   11G  83% /media/disk-1
/dev/sdb5              55G   45G  7.1G  87% /media/disk-2
/dev/sdb1              20G  8.3G   11G  45% /media/disk-3
steven at Yesua:~$

/dev/sda7 & 5 are on one HDD and /dev/sdb1 & 5 are on the other HDD.

or is the reference to /media/disk & disk-1 and /media/disk-2 & -3 the 
reference.  These are references to partitions not drives.  Do you see my 
confusion?

Steven





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