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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.