07-29-2006
Yeah I also had dsl in mind but was thinking if an older system (sunOS, BSD?) wouldn't be better for the box, since it's supposed to be used as a desktop. I'm looking in it right now and it seems it has 48 or 64 MB memory, a 233 mhz processor with a too old mothercard (only supporting 133) and an 8 GB hard-drive (so space will not be an issue). But abou DSL? Isn't that completely dektop oriented? Can I even switch X system on it?
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gsmartcontrol
GSmartControl(1) User Commands GSmartControl(1)
NAME
GSmartControl - Hard disk drive health inspection tool
SYNOPSIS
gsmartcontrol [OPTIONS]
gsmartcontrol-root [<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 drives. It allows you to inspect the drive's SMART data to deter-
mine 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
Disable 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 debugging.
--add-virtual
Load smartctl data from file, creating a virtual drive
--add-device
Add this device to device list. Useful with --no-scan to list certain drives only.
--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 - 2009 Alexander Shaduri <ashaduri 'at' gmail.com>
AUTHOR
This manual page was originally written by Giuseppe Iuculano <giuseppe@iuculano.it>, for the Debian project.
gsmartcontrol GSmartControl(1)