Samuel Verschelde

Hi. Do you have some data about those logs after a few months? Did they grow a lot, was rotation functional, did you encounter any issue?

Since it writes only significant changes, I think it could grow a lot in case of disks with defects?

I have built an update candidate (without log rotation for now) and installed it on a box but not logs were produced at all over the week-end. Could be expected...

According to recent man pages and to the original poster, smartd does log by default in `/var/lib/smartmontools`... Except when the directory doesn't exist. So the purpose of the modification was...

The latest man page at https://www.smartmontools.org/browser/trunk/smartmontools/smartd.8.in says: ``` -A PREFIX, --attributelog=PREFIX Writes smartd attribute information (normalized and raw attribute values) to files 'PREFIX''MODEL-SERIAL.ata.csv' or 'PREFIX''VENDOR-MODEL-SERIAL.scsi.csv'. At each check cycle attributes...

So, creating `/var/lib/smartmontools` did not enable the logging by default, so we'd need to change the way the daemon is started (not difficult, but that is a change from the...

1.5 terabytes on XCP-ng's root partition which is only 18 GB large?