this is what smartctl reports about my disks. Are they OK?: ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ # smartctl --xall /dev/sda smartctl 6.6 2016-05-31 r4324 [x86_64-linux-4.9.0-6-amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Western Digital Black Device Model: WDC WD3200BEKT-08PVMT1 Serial Number: WD-WXN1CC1A1245 Firmware Version: 02.01A02 . . . # date; smartctl -l selftest /dev/sda Mon Oct 7 02:28:49 CEST 2019 smartctl 6.6 2016-05-31 r4324 [x86_64-linux-4.9.0-6-amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 14318 - # ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ # smartctl --xall /dev/sdb smartctl 6.6 2016-05-31 r4324 [x86_64-linux-4.9.0-6-amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Seagate Samsung SpinPoint M9T Device Model: ST2000LM003 HN-M201RAD Serial Number: M932A4G7001730 LU WWN Device Id: 0 000000 000000000 Firmware Version: 2BE10001 . . . # date; smartctl -l selftest /dev/sdb Mon Oct 7 10:06:04 CEST 2019 smartctl 6.6 2016-05-31 r4324 [x86_64-linux-4.9.0-6-amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 1802 - # ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ # date; smartctl --xall /dev/sdc Mon Oct 7 11:22:16 CEST 2019 smartctl 6.6 2016-05-31 r4324 [x86_64-linux-4.9.0-6-amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Seagate Archive HDD Device Model: ST8000AS0002-1NA17Z Serial Number: Z840G7JM LU WWN Device Id: 5 000c50 090d2f837 Firmware Version: AR17 # date; smartctl -l selftest /dev/sdc Tue Oct 8 06:38:59 CEST 2019 smartctl 6.6 2016-05-31 r4324 [x86_64-linux-4.9.0-6-amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 3530 - ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ lbrtchx On 10/5/19, Albretch Mueller <lbrt...@gmail.com> wrote: > thank you (also, as part caring for good karma in case someone runs > into such matters) the two (or three) silver lines I got from you > comments were: > > a) defragment that NTFS partition once in a while. i mostly use that > partition to read legacy data, but I didn't know you could defragment > a windows partition within Linux, on unix.stackexchange: > > https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/13976/is-there-a-linux-tool-for-defragging-ntfs-partitions > > they were talking well about: > > https://www.tuxera.com/community/open-source-ntfs-3g/ > > which I got: > > # which ntfs-3g > /bin/ntfs-3g > > # ntfs-3g --version > ntfs-3g 2016.2.22AR.1 integrated FUSE 28 > > b) those disks are pretty full I have heard that disks need some > "elbow room", but I thought that was only necessary if you use them > for reading and writing (not just for linearly reading) > > c) using FAT carries the 4Gb limit on file sizes which I don't want > to be dealing with. I prefer to deal with the other kinds of problems > > lbrtchx >
