---
name: "gsmartcontrol"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "gsmartcontrol"
version: "2.0.2-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/gsmartcontrol"
---

# gsmartcontrol(1)

Hard disk drive and SSD health inspection tool

## 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 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**.

## 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

- **--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 \[0-5\]

## COPYRIGHT

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

## AUTHOR

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