GSmartControl(1) Hard disk drive 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 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
--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 <[email protected]> for the Debian project.