Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd Edition) - Version 11.0

Chapter 12. System Utilities

UDisks-2.9.3

Introduction to UDisks

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

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-11.0 platform.

Package Information

UDisks Dependencies

Required

libatasmart-0.19, libblockdev-2.26, libgudev-237, libxslt-1.1.34, and Polkit-0.119

Required at runtime

btrfs-progs-5.13.1, dosfstools-4.2, gptfdisk-1.0.8, mdadm-4.1, and xfsprogs-5.13.0

Recommended

Systemd-249

Optional (Required if building GNOME)

gobject-introspection-1.68.0

Optional

D-Bus Python-1.2.18 (for the integration tests), GTK-Doc-1.33.2, LVM2-2.03.13, ntfs-3g-2021.8.22, PyGObject-3.40.1 (for the integration tests), exFAT, and libiscsi

User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/udisks2

Installation of UDisks

Install UDisks by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=/usr        \
            --sysconfdir=/etc    \
            --localstatedir=/var \
            --disable-static     &&
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.

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,run}/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

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