The Rantings and Ravings of a Madman

I had a RAID6 array die on my recently so I wanted to start running SMART tests across all the drives that were in the RAID6 array.
This was easy for me as the RAID drives were all Seagates, so I used the following snippet to do it:


for x in /dev/sd?; do
output=$(smartctl -i $x);
if [[ $output =~ 'Seagate' ]]; then
smartctl -t long $x;
fi;
done

The snippet above checks the SMART information for the string ‘Seagate’, and if it finds it, then starts the SMART test via smartctl.

Then to monitor the progress of the SMART tests, I used the following snippet:

while true; do
clear
for x in $(
for x in /dev/sd?; do
output=$(smartctl -i $x);
if [[ $output =~ 'Seagate' ]]; then
echo $x;
fi;
done); do
echo $x
smartctl -l selftest $x
done
sleep 10
done

This snippet has a nested for statement so that it only shows the self test logs for the drives that are Seagates.