BUGG in KDE Partition Manager

[claydoh]

However, it does not read the SMART of any of my disks. I wonder if there's a setting...

You need smartmontools installed, but.......
https://stikonas.eu/wordpress/2018/0...ition-manager/

As part of Season of KDE program Caio J. Carvalho ported away from unmaintained libatasmart to smartmontools. We will require smartmontools 6.7 which is not yet released at the time of this post. This again improves FreeBSD support, as it has smartctl. libatasmart was GUN/Linux only.

However........
You
You can get it from Ubuntu-backports

claydoh@claydoh-ideapad:~$ apt policy smartmontools
smartmontools:
  Installed: 6.5+svn4324-1
  Candidate: 6.5+svn4324-1
  Version table:
     7.0-0ubuntu1~ubuntu18.04.1 100
        100 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports/main amd64 Packages
 *** 6.5+svn4324-1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

soooo

sudo apt install -t bionic-backports smartmontools

and SMART status works in Neon after that

[jglen490]

Over time: at times KDE Partition Manager works well, sometimes Gparted works better, and there's always fdisk. They don't all have the same capabilities or functions, but at one time I used all of them to resolve a single issue with a specific drive - that was a pain in the ***!