What makes gnome-disks think my disk is going to fail soon?

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Hi everyone,

In one desktop machine gnome-disks just started saying ”Assessment: DISK IS LIKELY TO FAIL SOON”. The disk is very old so that wouldn’t be too surprising, but when I look for the details, I can’t see anything being wrong. If select “SMART Data & Self-Tests” menu entry all the attributes says “Assessment OK". The self tests, both short and extended, also complete without issues.

I tried to get more information using the command line tool smartctl but that seems to say the same. smartctl -A doesn’t have an “assessment” column, but none of them has anything in the WHEN_FAILED column. smartcl -l error does show a few entries, but they are from years ago according to the power-on lifetime indication. smartctl -H says PASSED.

Does anyone have any idea why gnome-disks still thinks the disk is going to fail?

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See: Disk is likely to fail soon, but all SMART assessments are OK

What version of libblockdev do you have installed? Does the warning persist if you upgrade to the latest?

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I clearly need to improve my search skills! Thanks for the pointer.

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