Stupid Question Time: Disk Tests

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Platypus69 wrote:

 

 

And got the following in the volume log:

 

Thu Apr 6 2017 14:59:01		Volume: Disk test completed for volume data.
Thu Apr 6 2017 4:10:02		Volume: Disk test started for volume data.

 

Which is not what I expected.

 

So how do you run SMART tests on all the disks?

 

 

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I believe you actually did run the extended SMART test on the drives when you ran the disk test.  But the documentation doesn't spell that out (and probably should).  The smart history is updated when the stats change, so it doesn't have entries when tests run and pass.

There is also a short SMART check done periodically - that should also be in the manual, and isn't.

Of course, SMART stats are continuously maintained in the drive, so errors that show up in scrub, balance, etc also show up in the smart stats.

You can see the most useful smart stats and the maintenance history if you download the log zip and look in volume.log