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

       --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.