[Swlug] Mysterious errors

[Rhys Sage]

Hmm... Still not getting too far. I wonder if smartctl is in my little o' Reilly pocket Linux handbook. More to the point, I wonder where that book is.

rhys at Apollo:~$ sudo smartctl /dev/sda -a
[sudo] password for rhys:         
smartctl 7.1 2019-12-30 r5022 [x86_64-linux-5.4.0-169-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-19, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org


Smartctl open device: /dev/sda failed: No such device
rhys at Apollo:~$ lsblk
NAME         MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
mmcblk0      179:0    0 58.2G  0 disk 
├─mmcblk0p1  179:1    0  512M  0 part /boot/efi
└─mmcblk0p2  179:2    0 57.8G  0 part /
mmcblk0boot0 179:8    0    4M  1 disk 
mmcblk0boot1 179:16   0    4M  1 disk 
rhys at Apollo:~$ sudo smartctl /dev/mmcblk0 -a
smartctl 7.1 2019-12-30 r5022 [x86_64-linux-5.4.0-169-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-19, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org


/dev/mmcblk0: Unable to detect device type
Please specify device type with the -d option.


Use smartctl -h to get a usage summary


rhys at Apollo:~$ 



Rhys Sage