Hi, On Thu, 2016-10-27 at 11:25 +0200, Alessandro Baggi wrote: > === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === > SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED That's the line you are looking for. Since your disk apparently does not store an error log - not sure if that's something with SSDs in general or just with this particular disk - you will always have to invoke smartctl -t short /dev/sda and then after the test has completed check the output of smartctl -a /dev/sda for that particular line. Shouldn't be too hard to put in a cron job, just make sure the job waits long enough (more than 1 minute, make it 2 to be sure) with reading the output of smartctl -a after invoking smartctl -t short. Regards, Leonard. -- mount -t life -o ro /dev/dna /genetic/research