How to monitor the hard disk status

Checking if SMART is enabled

Find out the names of your hard disks by using one of the following commands:

df -h
fdisk -l

Let’s become familiar with the smartctl utility. The first thing we want to check is if S.M.A.R.T support is active on the device. To perform this operation we can run the smartctl utility with the -i option (short for --info):

$ sudo smartctl -i /dev/sda
The output of the command is the following:
smartctl 7.1 2020-04-05 r5049 [x86_64-linux-4.18.0-193.28.1.el8_2.x86_64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-19, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor:               LSILOGIC
Product:              Logical Volume
Revision:             3000
User Capacity:        498 999 492 608 bytes [498 GB]
Logical block size:   512 bytes
Logical Unit id:      0x600508e0000000002bc75cd385bf0d0c
Device type:          disk
Local Time is:        Tue Oct 25 14:17:01 2022 CEST
SMART support is:     Unavailable - device lacks SMART capability.

We can see that basic information are displayed such as the device family, model, sector sizes, etc. What interests us the most, however is the content of the last two lines. From there we can see that the device has SMART capabilities and that, in this case, SMART support is disabled. What if we want to enable it? All we have to do is to run smartctl with the -s option, using “on” as argument:

smartctl 7.1 2020-04-05 r5049 [x86_64-linux-4.18.0-193.28.1.el8_2.x86_64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-19, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=======> INVALID ARGUMENT TO -s: /dev/sda
=======> VALID ARGUMENTS ARE: on, off, aam,[N|off], apm,[N|off], dsn,[on|off], lookahead,[on|off], security-freeze, standby,[N|off|now], wcache,[on|off], rcache,[on|off], wcreorder,[on|off[,p]], wcache-sct,[ata|on|off[,p]] <=======

Use smartctl -h to get a usage summary
Getting familiar with smartctl
To get all the available SMART information about a storage device, we can launch the utility with the -a option (short for -all) and of course pass the path of the device we want to check as the last argument of the command. Suppose we want to check the current status of the /dev/sda device; we would run:

$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda
The command above produces a lot of output. Among the other things, we can see the status of various SMART parameters:

smartctl 7.1 2020-04-05 r5049 [x86_64-linux-4.18.0-193.28.1.el8_2.x86_64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-19, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor:               LSILOGIC
Product:              Logical Volume
Revision:             3000
User Capacity:        498 999 492 608 bytes [498 GB]
Logical block size:   512 bytes
Logical Unit id:      0x600508e0000000002bc75cd385bf0d0c
Device type:          disk
Local Time is:        Tue Oct 25 14:19:37 2022 CEST
SMART support is:     Unavailable - device lacks SMART capability.

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
Current Drive Temperature:     0 C
Drive Trip Temperature:        0 C

Error Counter logging not supported

Device does not support Self Test logging

RAID Commands

fdisk -l

lblsk

lshw -class disk - show all disk with information

smartctl --scan   - show all installed disks

smartctl -d sat -all /dev/sg1 

lspci |grep -i raid

lspci -vv | grep -i raid

cat /proc/scsi/scsi

# smartctl -a /dev/sda -d sat+megaraid,00

• Show all physical disks on controller 0

  $ omreport storage pdisk controller=0
  

• Show all logical disks on controller 0

  $ omreport storage vdisk controller=0
  

• Show all physical disks on vdisk 0

  $ omreport storage pdisk controller=0 vdisk=0
  

• Reconfigure a vdisk to be raid1 from raid0 (COOL!!!!)

  $ sudo omconfig storage vdisk action=reconfigure controller=0 vdisk=1 raid=r1 pdisk=0:0:2,0:0:3

• omreport storage pdisk controller=0 vdisk=0 | grep -v ": Not "