[smartmontools-support] How to understand smartctl -x output lines concerning the log?

[Christian Franke]

D. Wróblewski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> how to understand the following lines of smartctl -x output?
>
> *SMART Extended Comprehensive Error Log Version: 1 (1 sectors)
> No Errors Logged*
>
> *SMART Extended Self-test Log Version: 1 (1 sectors)*
>
> Especially, what is the meaning of "1 sectors"? I hope this is not the 
> number of bad/failing sectors, right?

Right, otherwise "No Errors Logged" would not make sense. This is the 
vendor specific number of available sectors for these logs. Please see 
section about '-l xerror' and '-l xselftest' options on smartctl man page.

Regards,
Christian