Some experience about getting S.M.A.R.T. data of a disk drives by smartctl with Live Linux (like Clonezilla).
“Start Clonezilla” window: Enter command line prompt.
$ sudo su -
Insert USB disk.
# tail -n 7 /var/log/messages
Feb 2 16:10:31 oneiric kernel: [ 615.995968] USB Mass Storage support registered.
Feb 2 16:10:32 oneiric kernel: [ 616.996886] scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access hp v165w 0.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
Feb 2 16:10:32 oneiric kernel: [ 617.040526] sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
Feb 2 16:10:32 oneiric kernel: [ 617.041683] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] 15773696 512-byte logical blocks: (8.07 GB/7.52 GiB)
Feb 2 16:10:32 oneiric kernel: [ 617.042735] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
Feb 2 16:10:32 oneiric kernel: [ 617.051708] sdc: sdc1
Feb 2 16:10:32 oneiric kernel: [ 617.065249] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
#
# mkdir /mnt/myf/
# mount -t vfat /dev/sdc1 /mnt/myf/
# smartctl --scan
/dev/sda -d scsi # /dev/sda, SCSI device
/dev/sdb -d scsi # /dev/sdb, SCSI device
See man smartctl about comand line switches of smartctl (tool of smartmontools). There is an output by --all switch below. See S.M.A.R.T. data description to understanding.
Probably, if you get something not like "SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED" (see --health switch) you need more attention or a new disk...
# smartctl --all /dev/sda >> /mnt/myf/report.txt
or
# smartctl --all /dev/sdb | less
smartctl 5.41 2011-06-09 r3365 [i686-linux-3.0.0-15-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Western Digital Caviar SE Serial ATA
Device Model: WDC WD1200JS-00MHB1
Serial Number: WD-WCANP1044609
Firmware Version: 10.02E01
User Capacity: 120,034,123,776 bytes [120 GB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: 7
ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is: Thu Feb 2 16:39:31 2012 UTC
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
See vendor-specific Attribute list for marginal Attributes.
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x84) Offline data collection activity
was suspended by an interrupting command from host.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: ( 3660) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 46) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 6) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x103f) SCT Status supported.
SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 186 185 021 Pre-fail Always - 3700
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 1675
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 081 081 000 Old_age Always - 13912
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0012 100 100 051 Old_age Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 1675
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 047 039 045 Old_age Always In_the_past 53
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 094 086 000 Old_age Always - 53
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0009 200 200 051 Pre-fail Offline - 0
SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
Make unmount before unplugging an USB disk.
# umount /mnt/myf/
# reboot