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From: gevisz <gevisz@×××××.com>
To: "gentoo-user@l.g.o" <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive?
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2016 04:23:52
Message-Id: CA+t6X7dZwEhmk9ojkZpQ6YVnQ=DLhKxjuVSZK6ECa4xHxZkPQg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Is it still advisable to partition a big hard drive? by Frank Steinmetzger
1 2016-09-01 11:55 GMT+03:00 Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@×××.de>:
2 > On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 11:44:19AM +0300, gevisz wrote:
3 >
4 >> > Some people do a full systems check (i.e. badblocks) before entrusting a
5 >> > drive with anything important.
6 >>
7 >> It is a good advice! I have already thought of this but I am sorry to
8 >> acknowledge that, since the "old good times" of MS DOS 6.22, I never did
9 >> this in Linux. :(
10 >> […]
11 >> So, can you, please, advice me about the program or utility that can do
12 >> badblocks check for me?
13 >
14 > Badblocks is part of e2fsprogs. But since you’re using USB2, this will
15 > really take a while. At best I get 39 MB/s out of it. Another way is a
16 > S.M.A.R.T. test, methinks `smartctl -t full` is the command for that. But I
17 > don’t know what exactly is being tested there. But it runs fully internal of
18 > the disk, so no USB2-bottleneck. Others may chime in if I tell fairy tales.
19
20 So far, the hard drive passed two (small) smart tests started by commands:
21 # smartctl -c -t short -d sat /dev/sdc
22 and
23 # smartctl -t conveyance -d sat /dev/sdc
24 as is indicated by
25 # smartctl -l selftest -d sat /dev/sdc
26 smartctl 6.4 2015-06-04 r4109 [x86_64-linux-4.4.6-gentoo] (local build)
27 Copyright (C) 2002-15, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
28
29 === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
30 SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
31 Num Test_Description Status Remaining
32 LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
33 # 1 Conveyance offline Completed without error 00% 0 -
34 # 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 0 -
35
36 However, after running
37 # smartctl -t long -d sat /dev/sdc
38 I have no indication that it has been passed:
39 # smartctl -t long -d sat /dev/sdc
40 smartctl 6.4 2015-06-04 r4109 [x86_64-linux-4.4.6-gentoo] (local build)
41 Copyright (C) 2002-15, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
42
43 === START OF OFFLINE IMMEDIATE AND SELF-TEST SECTION ===
44 Sending command: "Execute SMART Extended self-test routine immediately
45 in off-line mode".
46 Drive command "Execute SMART Extended self-test routine immediately in
47 off-line mode" successful.
48 Testing has begun.
49 Please wait 571 minutes for test to complete.
50 Test will complete after Fri Sep 2 04:02:18 2016
51
52 Use smartctl -X to abort test.
53
54 Fri Sep 2 6:10
55 # smartctl -l selftest -d sat /dev/sdc
56 smartctl 6.4 2015-06-04 r4109 [x86_64-linux-4.4.6-gentoo] (local build)
57 Copyright (C) 2002-15, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
58
59 Read Device Identity failed: scsi error device will be ready soon
60
61 A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or
62 more '-T permissive' options.
63
64 # smartctl -a -d sat /dev/sdc
65 smartctl 6.4 2015-06-04 r4109 [x86_64-linux-4.4.6-gentoo] (local build)
66 Copyright (C) 2002-15, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
67
68 === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
69 Device Model: WDC WD50EZRZ-00GZ5B1
70 Serial Number: <snipped>
71 LU WWN Device Id: <snipped>
72 Firmware Version: 80.00A80
73 User Capacity: 5,000,981,078,016 bytes [5.00 TB]
74 Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
75 Rotation Rate: 5700 rpm
76 Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
77 ATA Version is: ACS-2, ACS-3 T13/2161-D revision 3b
78 SATA Version is: SATA 3.1, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
79 Local Time is: Fri Sep 2 06:12:50 2016 EEST
80 SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
81 SMART support is: Enabled
82
83 === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
84 SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
85
86 General SMART Values:
87 Offline data collection status: (0x80) Offline data collection activity
88 was never started.
89 Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
90 Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test
91 routine completed
92 without error or no self-test has ever
93 been run.
94 Total time to complete Offline
95 data collection: (57180) seconds.
96 Offline data collection
97 capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
98 Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
99 Suspend Offline collection upon new
100 command.
101 Offline surface scan supported.
102 Self-test supported.
103 Conveyance Self-test supported.
104 Selective Self-test supported.
105 SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
106 power-saving mode.
107 Supports SMART auto save timer.
108 Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
109 General Purpose Logging supported.
110 Short self-test routine
111 recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
112 Extended self-test routine
113 recommended polling time: ( 571) minutes.
114 Conveyance self-test routine
115 recommended polling time: ( 5) minutes.
116 SCT capabilities: (0x3035) SCT Status supported.
117 SCT Feature Control supported.
118 SCT Data Table supported.
119
120 SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
121 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
122 ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE
123 UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
124 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 100 253 051 Pre-fail
125 Always - 0
126 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 198 198 021 Pre-fail
127 Always - 9083
128 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age
129 Always - 7
130 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail
131 Always - 0
132 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 100 253 000 Old_age
133 Always - 0
134 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age
135 Always - 1
136 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age
137 Always - 0
138 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age
139 Always - 0
140 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age
141 Always - 7
142 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age
143 Always - 1
144 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age
145 Always - 10
146 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 124 105 000 Old_age
147 Always - 28
148 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age
149 Always - 0
150 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age
151 Always - 0
152 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 253 000 Old_age
153 Offline - 0
154 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age
155 Always - 0
156 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 100 253 000 Old_age
157 Offline - 0
158
159 SMART Error Log Version: 1
160 No Errors Logged
161
162 SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
163 Num Test_Description Status Remaining
164 LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
165 # 1 Conveyance offline Completed without error 00% 0 -
166 # 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 0 -
167
168 SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
169 SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
170 1 0 0 Not_testing
171 2 0 0 Not_testing
172 3 0 0 Not_testing
173 4 0 0 Not_testing
174 5 0 0 Not_testing
175 Selective self-test flags (0x0):
176 After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
177 If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

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