[smartmontools-support] How to identify disk issue with smartmontools

[Alexander Shaduri]

Hi,

You could try GSmartControl - https://gsmartcontrol.sourceforge.io/ ,
which highlights some potentially problematic values. There are
packages
for most distros out there (usually included with the distribution).

Otherwise, learn "How to read smartctl reports" here:
https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/Help#Howtoreadsmartctlreports

In my experience, the most frequent suspect is "reallocated sector
count",
the RAW value of which should be 0.

Cheers,
Alexander

On Fri, 2017-11-03 at 15:44 +0800, fengyd wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm new to smartmontools.
> The CLI smartctl -a /dev/sdX  displays a lot of information. 
> Do you know how to identify if there's something wrong with disk
> according to the printout.
> I have searched some information from google, but I'm still not
> clear.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Yafeng
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