https://www.simplified.guide/linux/disk-health-check

Install

For ubuntu/debian based distros (which is what I primarly use presently)

sudo apt update -y && sudo apt install smartmontools -y

List hard drives

lsblk | grep disk is one way or sudo lshw -c disk is another

smartctl

Use a device’s logical name such as dev/sda, not a partition of the disk

sudo smartctl -t short /dev/sda

dotfiles   home   ×3  ×2  ×2 via   v3.10.6(dotfiles)  took 11s
❯ sudo smartctl -t short /dev/sda
smartctl 7.1 2019-12-30 r5022 [x86_64-linux-5.15.0-48-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-19, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF OFFLINE IMMEDIATE AND SELF-TEST SECTION ===
Sending command: "Execute SMART Short self-test routine immediately in off-line mode".
Drive command "Execute SMART Short self-test routine immediately in off-line mode" successful.
Testing has begun.
Please wait 2 minutes for test to complete.
Test will complete after Fri Sep 23 05:59:39 2022 CDT
Use smartctl -X to abort test.

check status

sudo smartctl -H /dev/sda

dotfiles   home   ×3  ×2  ×2 via   v3.10.6(dotfiles)
❯ sudo smartctl -H /dev/sda
smartctl 7.1 2019-12-30 r5022 [x86_64-linux-5.15.0-48-generic] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-19, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

To filter for saved views from the admin console you have to use the id of the tag you are using to filter on…

Ex: filtering for tags “Inbox” doesn’t work, but for tag 18 does (the id fo the Inbox tag). I can find that ID by clicking on the tag and looking at the url bar

Steps

sudo fdisk -l

then look for the device and partition

get the Type column

mount

Example #

dumbledore in /media  NO PYTHON VENV SET 
❯ sudo fdisk -l

...

Device     Boot    Start      End  Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/sdk1  *        2048 60371951 60369904 28.8G  7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sdk2       60371952 60437487    65536   32M ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)


dumbledore in /media  NO PYTHON VENV SET 
❯ sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sdk1 /media/ventoy-usb -o uid=1000                       
NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount '/dev/sdk1': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/sdk1' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?

dumbledore in /media  NO PYTHON VENV SET 
✗ sudo mount -t exfat /dev/sdk1 /media/ventoy-usb -o uid=1000

I just need to RDP into an Ubuntu box via Remmina and everytime I login I have to authenticate to create a color managed device… which I don’t even know what that is!

To fix it?

vim /etc/polkit-1/localauthority.conf.d/02-allow-colord.conf

polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
 if ((action.id == "org.freedesktop.color-manager.create-device" ||
 action.id == "org.freedesktop.color-manager.create-profile" ||
 action.id == "org.freedesktop.color-manager.delete-device" ||
 action.id == "org.freedesktop.color-manager.delete-profile" ||
 action.id == "org.freedesktop.color-manager.modify-device" ||
 action.id == "org.freedesktop.color-manager.modify-profile") &&
 subject.isInGroup("{users}")) {
 return polkit.Result.YES;
 }
 });

Give’r the :x, logout, and you’re good to go

zfs allow -u $USER clone,load-key,create,destroy,mount,mountpoint,receive,send,rollback,compression,snapshot,hold,keylocation,bookmark tank

load-key only needed if using encrypted datasets