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.TH GSmartControl "1" "" "gsmartcontrol " "User Commands"
.SH NAME
GSmartControl \- Hard disk drive health inspection tool
.SH SYNOPSIS
\fBgsmartcontrol\fP [OPTIONS]
\fBgsmartcontrol\-root\fP [\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
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
Disable 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
.TP
\fB\-\-add\-device\fP
Add this device to device list. Useful with \fB\-\-no\-scan\fP to list certain drives only.
.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 \- 2009 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.