On Wed, 24 Jan 2018 01:59:34 -0000 "William Mattison" <mattison.computer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Good evening, > > (f26; Gnome) This past spring, with a lot of help from this list, I > replaced the dying hard drive on my home workstation. But when I use > the "disks" tool to check the health of the new hard drive, > smartmontools continues to report test data from the old drive. I've > looked at the smartmontools web site, but I don't see a way of > telling smartmontools to update itself to the new drive. I'm a home > user with no real sys.admin., OS, or hardware training. So please > spell it out clearly, in detail: > > How do I make smartmontools (and the disks tool) aware of the hard > drive replacement and monitor the new hard drive properly? So, if you run smartctl -a /dev/sd[disk letter] as root you get output from a non-existent disk? That doesn't make sense. I don't find a program on my system called disks, and the smartmontools package definitely has no program called disks. Step 1. Run df Step 2. find the device that you want to monitor, /dev/sd? Step 3. As root, run smartctl -a /dev/sd? _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
