On Sat 13/01/2024 at 02:42, gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > I just found an mbox file in my home directory, containing about 90 days > worth of undelivered msgs from smartctl running as root. > > smartctl says my raid10 is dying, but will not access the drives for > detail. The -d /dev/sde1 for instance generates a help msg saying it > needs a devicename as final argument, being run as "sudo smartctl -i -d > /dev/sde1". or as -i -d /dev/md0p1??? > Typical: sudo smartctl -i -d /dev/md0p1: > gene@coyote:~$ sudo smartctl -i -d /dev/md0p1 > smartctl 7.3 2022-02-28 r5338 [x86_64-linux-6.1.0-17-rt-amd64] (local build) > Copyright (C) 2002-22, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org > > ERROR: smartctl requires a device name as the final command-line argument. > > > Use smartctl -h to get a usage summary > > > Instructions please...
Hi Gene, You seem to be asking it to operate on partitions. smartctl -options /dev/sdX is the form, I believe, in which sdX must be a device, not a virtual thing such as MD, LVM etc.
