Yeah I had a think about the wording as well and the only thing I could come up with was putting "Device reports" before both messages from smartstatus and that isn't that helpful.
The man page seems pretty clear to me already, not sure it needs to be changed. On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 11:37:43AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2010/04/03 07:51, Nicholas Marriott wrote: > > Maybe the message in one or other of the cases should be different? > > The message in readattr is slightly different as it talks about > values; I've tried a few other wordings but none have really improved > clarity. I'd be more in favour of adding a short explanation to > readattr in the manual (or just removing this check in readattr > so it just displays the values returned from the drive and > doesn't bother with any comparison..) > > smartstatus: > > No SMART threshold exceeded > SMART threshold exceeded! > > readattr: > > One or more threshold values exceeded!
