2016-09-01 11:55 GMT+03:00 Frank Steinmetzger <war...@gmx.de>: > On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 11:44:19AM +0300, gevisz wrote: > >> > Some people do a full systems check (i.e. badblocks) before entrusting a >> > drive with anything important. >> >> It is a good advice! I have already thought of this but I am sorry to >> acknowledge that, since the "old good times" of MS DOS 6.22, I never did >> this in Linux. :( >> […] >> So, can you, please, advice me about the program or utility that can do >> badblocks check for me? > > Badblocks is part of e2fsprogs. But since you’re using USB2, this will > really take a while. At best I get 39 MB/s out of it. Another way is a > S.M.A.R.T. test, methinks `smartctl -t full` is the command for that. But I > don’t know what exactly is being tested there. But it runs fully internal of > the disk, so no USB2-bottleneck. Others may chime in if I tell fairy tales.
So far, the hard drive passed two (small) smart tests started by commands: # smartctl -c -t short -d sat /dev/sdc and # smartctl -t conveyance -d sat /dev/sdc as is indicated by # smartctl -l selftest -d sat /dev/sdc smartctl 6.4 2015-06-04 r4109 [x86_64-linux-4.4.6-gentoo] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-15, 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 Conveyance offline Completed without error 00% 0 - # 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 0 - However, after running # smartctl -t long -d sat /dev/sdc I have no indication that it has been passed: # smartctl -t long -d sat /dev/sdc smartctl 6.4 2015-06-04 r4109 [x86_64-linux-4.4.6-gentoo] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-15, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF OFFLINE IMMEDIATE AND SELF-TEST SECTION === Sending command: "Execute SMART Extended self-test routine immediately in off-line mode". Drive command "Execute SMART Extended self-test routine immediately in off-line mode" successful. Testing has begun. Please wait 571 minutes for test to complete. Test will complete after Fri Sep 2 04:02:18 2016 Use smartctl -X to abort test. Fri Sep 2 6:10 # smartctl -l selftest -d sat /dev/sdc smartctl 6.4 2015-06-04 r4109 [x86_64-linux-4.4.6-gentoo] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-15, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org Read Device Identity failed: scsi error device will be ready soon A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options. # smartctl -a -d sat /dev/sdc smartctl 6.4 2015-06-04 r4109 [x86_64-linux-4.4.6-gentoo] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-15, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: WDC WD50EZRZ-00GZ5B1 Serial Number: <snipped> LU WWN Device Id: <snipped> Firmware Version: 80.00A80 User Capacity: 5,000,981,078,016 bytes [5.00 TB] Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical Rotation Rate: 5700 rpm Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: ACS-2, ACS-3 T13/2161-D revision 3b SATA Version is: SATA 3.1, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s) Local Time is: Fri Sep 2 06:12:50 2016 EEST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x80) Offline data collection activity was never started. Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled. Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed without error or no self-test has ever been run. Total time to complete Offline data collection: (57180) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. Conveyance Self-test supported. Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. General Purpose Logging supported. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 571) minutes. Conveyance self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 5) minutes. SCT capabilities: (0x3035) SCT Status supported. SCT Feature Control supported. SCT Data Table supported. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 100 253 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 198 198 021 Pre-fail Always - 9083 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 7 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 1 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 7 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 1 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 10 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 124 105 000 Old_age Always - 28 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Conveyance offline Completed without error 00% 0 - # 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 0 - SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS 1 0 0 Not_testing 2 0 0 Not_testing 3 0 0 Not_testing 4 0 0 Not_testing 5 0 0 Not_testing Selective self-test flags (0x0): After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.