longtime for extended self-test and status where it is at

Hi all,

I have a 2 TB external USB bus-powered hdd. A Seagate ST2000LM003
HN-M201RAD  which is also used by Samsung now as Seagate bought
Samsung some years ago.

I tried -c to figure out how much time it will take to do the extended
self-test and it shows -

# smartctl -c /dev/sdb
smartctl 6.6 2016-05-31 r4324 [x86_64-linux-4.6.0-1-amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x00)	Offline data collection activity
					was never started.
					Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status:      (  38)	The self-test routine was interrupted
					by the host with a hard or soft reset.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: 		(22380) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: 			 (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
					Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
					Suspend Offline collection upon new
					command.
					Offline surface scan supported.
					Self-test supported.
					No Conveyance Self-test supported.
					Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities:            (0x0003)	Saves SMART data before entering
					power-saving mode.
					Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability:        (0x01)	Error logging supported.
					General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: 	 (   1) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: 	 ( 373) minutes.
SCT capabilities: 	       (0x003f)	SCT Status supported.
					SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
					SCT Feature Control supported.
					SCT Data Table supported.


Which basically comes down to 6.5 hours or thereabouts. While this I
can do this it would be nice if there was a way to check the progress
once in a while.

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