Disk Surface Test - results question
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I ran a Disk Surface Test (DST) and noticed that it sits at the “* Disk Surface test for /dev/sda” line with no status output. I researched online, found that the status is given at the end of the test, and that it automatically reboots, so I followed the instructions to force a keypress prior to the reboot.
This morning I came in, and the line quoted above finished with “…Done” and then the line below that was “* Task Complete” - no explicit confirmation of pass or fail. I suppose it could be following the Linux way of saying nothing if nothing went wrong?
Several people have commented in the past, and I agree with them - it would be nice to link the test results to the Reports section, as well as some field on the host somewhere, perhaps the top or bottom of the Inventory details (ex: Disk Surface Test: [Passed / Failed]).
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For what it’s worth, I ran the test on another disk that was causing me problems, and the screen “lit up like a Christmas tree,” as it were. So my assumption of “no news is good news” seems to have been correct. My suggestions still stand:
A) the “press any key…” interrupt should be on by default instead of needing to edit a couple text files (with 500+ GB drives, who has time to watch in the event the drive isn’t totally rotten, and errors don’t start until half-way through?)
B) it would be cool to be able to store the results in a text file linked from the site somewhere. -
@ckasdf Sorry for the long delay. Things are piling up here and we can’t work through it all in time.
You are right that results should be visible. I just pushed a change to the scripts so that the output of the command checking the disk is not suppressed. As well I added that users need to press a key to proceed. It’s still not perfect but at least this will help people to see the results.
Would be also great to have that in the reports section of the web UI but I fear we don’t have the time to implement that right now.
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Sorry for the long delay.
You guys are doing beautifully, I appreciate the work you do!
I just pushed a change to the scripts so that the output of the command checking the disk is not suppressed.
Can you provide the github link to the script(s) that were changed so I can check it out? I also need to figure out how to properly update FOG as new releases come, but haven’t had time till this week to sit down and read. I think I spotted some documentation out there on the subject though, so I’ll try to check that out today.
Would be also great to have that in the reports section of the web UI but I fear we don’t have the time to implement that right now.
Totally understand. That suggestion was more to toss on the list of future idea implementations as time allows. BTW, what language(s) is/are used for this? I’ve been interested in learning some software development. Maybe with time I could contribute back to the project.
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@ckasdf You are welcome. Here you find the changes we made: https://github.com/FOGProject/fos/commit/e8d5b54277820bc729c3179026acfb039858d1fd
Those were already merged into the init files for the latest official FOG release 1.5.7 - so give updating to the latest version a try.
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I just updated, and it was much easier than I originally anticipated.
Thanks again!