Re: smartctl cannot access my storage, need syntax help

[Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 09:31:54AM -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> David Wright composed on 2024-01-16 08:05 (UTC-0600):
> 
> > On Tue 16 Jan 2024 at 00:55:52 (-0500), Felix Miata wrote:
> 
> >> gene heskett composed on 2024-01-15 17:56 (UTC-0500):
> 
> >>> Thanks for that composition: but it will be word wrapped:
> >>> root@coyote:~# for j in /dev/disk/by-id/* ; do printf '%s\t%s\n' 
> >>> "$(realpath "$j")" "$j" ; done
> >>> /dev/sr0        /dev/disk/by-id/ata-ATAPI_iHAS424_B_3524253_327133504865
> >>> /dev/sdi        /dev/disk/by-id/ata-Gigastone_SSD_GST02TBG221146
> >>> /dev/sdj1       /dev/disk/by-id/ata-Gigastone_SSD_GST02TBG221146-part1
> 
> > It's right here at the top.
> 
> I missed that, probably because i & j look similar in the big sea of
> alphanumerics, /and/ sdi has no partitions, while sdj1 has no parent disk. That
> seems to smell as much like a bug somewhere as two different disks with the same
> serial number, a cheap SATA port card maybe. Does ...1146 get duplication like
> that when connected to any/every available SATA port?

I missed it too.  It actually looks like someone copy/pasted the
pathnames on the right, but then manually typed the device names on
the left, and made a typo here.  Or, somehow, the device names and
the pathnames got mixed together, and someone tried to separate them
manually, and got these two crossed.