Hello!

 

I am trying to set up automated extended SMART checks for my server on a schedule (every few months).

However I was not able to find out a solution that is already available - e.g. native unraid tool.

 

Thus, I want to set it up via user scripts and a snippet that I found:

for i in {b..o}; do
    smartctl --test=long /dev/sd$i
done

This snippet works well with short SMART tests.

However I could not find a solution to disable the spin down of my hard drives programmatically - which would be necessary, since I don't want to disable it manually every time a SMART test is scheduled.

 

Do you have a nice solution for that, or maybe you know how to set the spin down settings via terminal?

 

 

Thanks in advance!

Greetings

I am also trying to do this.  Does anyone know of a way to disable the spin down via the command line so it can be included in a script?  Thanks very much in advance.

On 7/30/2023 at 1:53 AM, chmp2k said:

I am trying to set up automated extended SMART checks for my server on a schedule (every few months).

However I was not able to find out a solution that is already available - e.g. native unraid tool.

This is because doing a Parity check effectively completes an extended SMART check of all your protected pool drives.

So just use the scheduled Parity check option in unRAID.