Check health status of a disk with smartctl

To find the path to the disk, run lsblk. Let’s say, path to the disk is /dev/sdc. To check if the disk is compatible with smartctl, run: $ sudo smartctl -i /dev/sdc | grep Enabled SMART support is: Enabled Then to print a health report: $ sudo smartctl -H /dev/sdc smartctl 7.2 2020-12-30 r5155 [x86_64-linux-5.15.0-176-generic] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-20, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED