SMART Devices
Listing 5: Checking the Device Health
# smartctl -H /dev/sda smartctl 7.2 2020-07-11 r5076 [x86_64-linux-5.4.0-42-generic] (CircleCI) Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
The first self-test to try is the short test (Listing 6). Although the command kicks off the self-test, it does not display the results. To see the results, check the self-test output with the -l option (Listing 7).
Listing 6: Short Self-Test
# smartctl -t short /dev/sda smartctl 7.2 2020-07-11 r5076 [x86_64-linux-5.4.0-42-generic] (CircleCI) Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF OFFLINE IMMEDIATE AND SELF-TEST SECTION === Sending command: "Execute SMART Short self-test routine immediately in off-line mode". Drive command "Execute SMART Short self-test routine immediately in off-line mode" successful. Testing has begun. Please wait 2 minutes for test to complete. Test will complete after Sun Aug 2 10:57:54 2020 EDT Use smartctl -X to abort test.
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