#1134365 gsmartcontrol: Shows partitions in addition to devices on many drive system

Package:
gsmartcontrol
Source:
gsmartcontrol
Description:
graphical user interface for smartctl
Submitter:
waxhead
Date:
2026-04-19 08:23:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1134365#5
Date:
2026-04-19 08:20:12 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

   * What led up to the situation?
Installed extra drives in a system so it is exceeding the /dev/sda...sdz range
the extra drives show up as /dev/sdaa.../dev/sdai
For the extra drives gsmartcontrol shows all partitions (/dev/sdaa1, /dev/sdaa2 etc) in the gui as drives.
To me this seems like a parsing problem for many drive systems.
That may be worrying, and why I chose to set the severity to important.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
I did not do anything to be honest

   * What was the outcome of this action?
Irrelevant since I did not do anything.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?
If my hypotesis is correct, I would expect gsmartctrl to be smarter with how it scans devices.