Hi Terry,
> > I included the results of the SMART tests, which show nothing
> > untoward. These results are from running the tests via KDE
> > Partition Manager; is there a better way?
Those are not SMART test results. They're just the current statistics
from the drive. And more detailed results are shown with smartctl's -x
option.
But you can also use smartctl to tell the drive to go off and run
various tests internally, e.g. -t. There are different tests; I don't
recall if any destruct data, but the man page will say.
This internal SMART testing is distinct from fsck which is the CPU
reading the data from the drive to check the filesystem's metadata, or
perhaps every readable sector if other fsck.ext4 options like -c are
given.
These may help.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/S.M.A.R.T%2E
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fsck
--
Cheers, Ralph.
--
Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2026-01-06 20:00
Check to whom you are replying
Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... https://dorset.lug.org.uk
New thread, don't hijack: mailto:[email protected]
