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GSmartControl(1) User Commands GSmartControl(1)

NAME

GSmartControl - Hard disk drive and SSD health inspection tool

SYNOPSIS

gsmartcontrol [OPTIONS]

gsmartcontrol-root [--desktop=<desktop>] [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION

GSmartControl is a graphical user interface for smartctl (from smartmontools), which is a tool for querying and controlling SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) data on modern hard disk and solid-state drives. It allows you to inspect the drive's SMART data to determine its health, as well as run various tests on it.

This manual page documents briefly the gsmartcontrol and gsmartcontrol-root commands.

gsmartcontrol-root command launches gsmartcontrol with administrative privileges. The desktop argument specifies which desktop is currently running, for automatic selection of native su mechanism. Valid values for desktop are auto, kde, gnome, other.

OPTIONS

Help Options:

-?, --help
Show help options
Show all help options
Show GTK+ options
Show logging options

Application Options:

Don't use system locale
Display version information
Don't scan devices on startup
Don't hide non-identity tabs when SMART is disabled. Useful for debugging.
Load smartctl data from file, creating a virtual drive. You can specify this option multiple times.
Add this device to device list. The format of the device is <device>::<type>::<extra_args>, where type and extra_args are optional. This option is useful with --no-scan to list certain drives only. You can specify this option multiple times. Example: 
--add-device /dev/sda --add-device /dev/twa0::3ware,2 --add-device '/dev/sdb::::-T permissive'
X display to use
Enable verbose logging; same as --verbosity-level 5
Disable logging; same as --verbosity-level 0
Set verbosity level [0-5]

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2008 - 2012 Alexander Shaduri <ashaduri ´at´ gmail.com>

AUTHOR

This manual page was originally written by Giuseppe Iuculano <giuseppe@iuculano.it> for the Debian project.

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