gsmartcontrol

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 au‐
   tomatic selection of native su mechanism. Valid values for desktop are auto, kde, gnome, other.

OPTIONS Help Options:

   -?, --help
          Show help options

   --help-all
          Show all help options

   --help-gtk
          Show GTK+ options

   --help-debug
          Show logging options

Application Options:

   -l, --no-locale
          Don't use system locale

   -V, --version
          Display version information

   --no-scan
          Don't scan devices on startup

   --no-hide-tabs
          Don't hide non-identity tabs when SMART is disabled. Useful for debugging.

   --add-virtual
          Load smartctl data from file, creating a virtual drive. You can specify this option multiple times.

   --add-device
          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'

   --display=DISPLAY
          X display to use

   -v, --verbose
          Enable verbose logging; same as --verbosity-level 5

   -q, --quiet
          Disable logging; same as --verbosity-level 0

   -b, --verbosity-level
          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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