[smartmontools-support]"offline"

[Dan J. <ji...@ji...>]

>> P.S. "offline" is not explained in the docs.

Bruce> It's explained in the smartctl man page. See the -o option.

Read.  Still, sorry, meaning not driven home in my mind.

You need to say:
Definition of terms used:
           Offline: ...
           Online: ...

User otherwise thinks: Ok, we know this has nothing to do with our
modem, so it probably means "unmounted" vs. "mounted". However:

      Enables or disables SMART automatic offline test, which scans
      the drive every four hours for disk defects. This command can be
      given during normal system operation.

Hmmm, so "offline" is run when the disks _are_ mounted.  So perhaps it
is the other way around, where online means "being directly connected
to the disk with no mounts in the way".

Or maybe it all has nothing to do with the UNIX mount(8) command at all.

As you can see, the beginning user is out of the loop.

You have to add an extra paragraph to sort this out, otherwise we
longtime users of different meanings of those words won't grab the
intended meaning, even if "-o is very clear already."