.TH GSmartControl "1" "" "gsmartcontrol " "User Commands"
.SH NAME
GSmartControl \- Hard disk drive and SSD health inspection tool
.SH SYNOPSIS
\fBgsmartcontrol\fP [OPTIONS]

\fBgsmartcontrol\-root\fP [--desktop=\fI<desktop>\fP] [OPTIONS]
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBGSmartControl\fP 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.
.PP
This manual page documents briefly the \fBgsmartcontrol\fP and
\fBgsmartcontrol\-root\fP commands.
.PP
\fBgsmartcontrol\-root\fP command launches \fBgsmartcontrol\fP with
administrative privileges. The \fIdesktop\fP argument specifies which desktop
is currently running, for automatic selection of native su mechanism. Valid
values for \fIdesktop\fP are \fBauto\fP, \fBkde\fP, \fBgnome\fP, \fBother\fP.

.SH OPTIONS
.SS "Help Options:"
.TP
\fB\-?\fP, \fB\-\-help\fP
Show help options
.TP
\fB\-\-help\-all\fP
Show all help options
.TP
\fB\-\-help\-gtk\fP
Show GTK+ options
.TP
\fB\-\-help\-debug\fR
Show logging options
.SS "Application Options:"
.TP
\fB\-l\fP, \fB\-\-no\-locale\fP
Don't use system locale
.TP
\fB\-V\fP, \fB\-\-version\fP
Display version information
.TP
\fB\-\-no\-scan\fP
Don't scan devices on startup
.TP
\fB\-\-no\-hide\-tabs\fP
Don't hide non\-identity tabs when SMART is disabled. Useful for debugging.
.TP
\fB\-\-add\-virtual\fP
Load smartctl data from file, creating a virtual drive. You
can specify this option multiple times.
.TP
\fB\-\-add\-device\fP
Add this device to device list. The format of the device is
\fI<device>::<type>::<extra_args>\fP, where type and extra_args are optional.
This option is useful with \fB\-\-no\-scan\fP to list certain drives only. You
can specify this option multiple times. Example:\fR
.nf
\-\-add\-device /dev/sda \-\-add\-device /dev/twa0::3ware,2 \-\-add\-device '/dev/sdb::::-T permissive'
.fi
.TP
\fB\-\-display\fP=\fIDISPLAY\fP
X display to use
.TP
\fB\-v\fP, \fB\-\-verbose\fP
Enable verbose logging; same as \fB\-\-verbosity\-level\fP 5
.TP
\fB\-q\fP, \fB\-\-quiet\fP
Disable logging; same as \fB\-\-verbosity\-level\fP 0
.TP
\fB\-b\fP, \fB\-\-verbosity\-level\fP
Set verbosity level [0\-5]
.PP
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 2008 \- 2012  Alexander Shaduri <ashaduri \'at\' gmail.com>
.PP
.SH AUTHOR
This manual page was originally written by Giuseppe Iuculano
<giuseppe@iuculano.it> for the Debian project.