GSmartControl - Hard disk drive and SSD health inspection tool
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Copyright
Copyright © 2008 - 2021 Alexander Shaduri <ashaduri@gmail.com>
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.
Name
GSmartControl - Hard disk drive and SSD health inspection tool
Options
HelpOptions:-?, --help
Show help options
--help-all
Show all help options
--help-gtk
Show GTK+ options
--help-debug
Show logging options
ApplicationOptions:-l, --no-locale
Don't use system locale
-V, --version
Display version information
--no-scan
Don't scan devices on startup
--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]
Synopsis
gsmartcontrol [OPTIONS]
gsmartcontrol-root [--desktop=<desktop>] [OPTIONS]
