NAME¶
GSmartControl - Hard disk drive health inspection tool
SYNOPSIS¶
gsmartcontrol [OPTIONS]
gsmartcontrol-root [
<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
- Disable 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
- --add-device
- Add this device to device list. Useful with
--no-scan to list certain drives only.
- --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 - 2009 Alexander Shaduri <ashaduri ´at´
gmail.com>
AUTHOR¶
This manual page was originally written by Giuseppe Iuculano
<giuseppe@iuculano.it>, for the Debian project.