6. Other Options

Here are some additional options that maybe useful.

Option to handle how smartctl will work with a drive that is under "Power Managment", ie a laptop hard drive.

From the manpage (http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net...martctl.8.html)


    -n POWERMODE, --nocheck=POWERMODE
        Specifieds if smartctl should exit before performing any checks when the device is in a low-power mode. It may be used to prevent a disk from being spun-up by smartctl. The power mode is ignored by default. The allowed values of POWERMODE are:

        never - check the device always, but print the power mode if '-i' is specified.

        sleep - check the device unless it is in SLEEP mode.

        standby - check the device unless it is in SLEEP or STANDBY mode. In these modes most disks are not spinning, so if you want to prevent a disk from spinning up, this is probably what you want.

        idle - check the device unless it is in SLEEP, STANDBY or IDLE mode. In the IDLE state, most disks are still spinning, so this is probably not what you want.