GSmartControl(1)

✨ GSmartControl(1) ✨

okay bestie, this is a User Commands page, and it's for GSmartControl — a whole graphical vibe for checking up on your drives 💖

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🌸 NAME 🌸

GSmartControl — hard disk drive and SSD health inspection tool 🩺💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

gsmartcontrol [OPTIONS]

gsmartcontrol-root [--desktop=<desktop>] [OPTIONS]

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so basically, GSmartControl is a graphical user interface for smartctl (which comes from smartmontools), and smartctl is the tool for querying and controlling SMART (that's Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) data on modern hard disk and solid-state drives. iconic behavior fr fr 🔥

it lets you peek at the drive's SMART data to figure out how healthy it's doing, and you can also run various tests on it. like a vibe check but for your SSD 💀✨

this manual page documents briefly the gsmartcontrol and gsmartcontrol-root commands.

the gsmartcontrol-root command launches gsmartcontrol with administrative privileges 👑 the desktop argument specifies which desktop is currently running, for automatic selection of the native su mechanism. valid values for desktop are auto, kde, gnome, other. no cap, that's the whole list 🎀

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

🫶 Help Options:

• -?, --help — show help options 🥺
• --help-all — show all help options (the whole buffet) 🍓
• --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 🚫🔍
• --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 <device>::<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] 🎚️

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright © 2008 - 2021 Alexander Shaduri <ashaduri@gmail.com> 💖

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🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

this manual page was originally written by Giuseppe Iuculano <giuseppe@iuculano.it> for the Debian project 🫡

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okay that's the whole page, you ate that 💅✨ so this was gsmartcontrol — the GSmartControl(1) manual, and yes it really does just say gsmartcontrol in the footer like that, lowercase and unbothered 😌🦋 go check your drives' health bestie, they deserve it 🎀💜