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GSmartControl - Hard disk drive and SSD health inspection tool
gsmartcontrol [OPTIONS]
gsmartcontrol-root [--desktop=<desktop>] [OPTIONS]
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.
--add-device /dev/sda --add-device /dev/twa0::3ware,2 --add-device '/dev/sdb::::-T permissive'
Copyright © 2008 - 2012 Alexander Shaduri <ashaduri ´at´ gmail.com>
This manual page was originally written by Giuseppe Iuculano <giuseppe@iuculano.it> for the Debian project.
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