Re: [smartmontools-support] smartd - running repeated tests

[Thane S. <th...@co...>]

At 09:47 AM 26/10/2011, Justin Piszcz wrote:
>Check the smartd.conf manpage, you can schedule tests there or just
>loop/sleep--you need to make sure no test overlaps otherwise it will
>abort the previous test, why not run a mkfs with two -c's or write to
>the HDD multiple times and /then/ run a short/long test?

I'm running Windows, so I'm a bit limited. :)  My thought was to use 
Bart's Stuff Test running continuously with the smartd running a long 
self test in the background.

Looking at the manpage, I'm just seeing the ability to schedule a 
test by the hour of the day (so at 2PM, for instance.)  I'd prefer to 
have something like run the test now, then in +5 hours, then again in 
+10 hours, because I start the testing at different times.  I guess I 
can just auto-generate a smartd.conf file based on the current time.

T