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GSmartControl(1)		  User Commands 		GSmartControl(1)

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 smartmon-
     tools), which is a tool for querying and controlling  SMART  (Self-Monitor-
     ing,  Analysis,  and  Reporting  Technology)  data  on modern hard disk and
     solid-state drives. It allows you to inspect the drive's SMART data to  de-
     termine 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 priv-
     ileges.  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 de-
	    bugging.

     --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 <de-
	    vice>::<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 (C) 2008 - 2012	Alexander Shaduri <ashaduri 'at' gmail.com>

AUTHOR
     This  manual page was originally written by Giuseppe Iuculano <giuseppe@iu-
     culano.it> for the Debian project.

gsmartcontrol							GSmartControl(1)

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