Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version r12.4-426

Chapter 12. System Utilities

UDisks-2.10.2

Introduction to UDisks

The UDisks package provides a daemon, tools and libraries to access and manipulate disks and storage devices.

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Package Information

UDisks Dependencies

Required

libatasmart-0.19, libblockdev-3.4.0, libgudev-238, and Polkit-126

Recommended

elogind-255.17

Optional (Required if building GNOME)

GLib-2.86.1 (with GObject Introspection)

Optional

D-Bus Python-1.4.0 (for the integration tests), GTK-Doc-1.35.1, libxslt-1.1.43 (for the man pages), LVM2-2.03.36, PyGObject-3.52.3 (for the integration tests), exFAT, and libiscsi

Optional Runtime Dependencies

btrfs-progs-6.17, dbus-1.16.2, dosfstools-4.2, gptfdisk-1.0.10, mdadm-4.4, and xfsprogs-6.17.0

Installation of UDisks

Install UDisks by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=/usr        \
            --sysconfdir=/etc    \
            --localstatedir=/var \
            --disable-static     \
            --enable-available-modules &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check. A more thorough test can be run with make ci. You must first create the directories /var/run/udisks2 and /var/lib/udisks2, and the optional python modules should be present.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

--enable-available-modules: This switch enables additional UDisks2 functionalities if libblockdev-3.4.0 has been built with optional dependencies.

Contents

Installed Programs: udisksctl and umount.udisks2
Installed Library: libudisks2.so
Installed Directories: /etc/udisks2, /usr/include/udisks2, /usr/libexec/udisks2, /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/udisks2, and /var/lib/udisks2

Short Descriptions

udisksctl

is a command-line program used to interact with the udisksd daemon

umount.udisks2

is a command-line program used to unmount file systems that have been mounted by the UDisks daemon

libudisks2.so

contains the UDisks API functions