Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 2012-01-16

Chapter 11. System Utilities

udisks-1.0.1

Introduction to udisks

The udisks package is a daemon that provide interfaces to obtain information and perform operations on storage devices.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-6.5 platform.

Package Information

udisks Dependencies

Required

D-Bus GLib Bindings-0.98, libatasmart-0.17, Parted-3.0 (with device-mapper-1.02.67), polkit-0.102, sg3_utils-1.29, and udev-Installed LFS Version (gudev)

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.18 and sudo-1.8.2 (to run the test)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/udisks

Installation of udisks

Install udisks by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --sysconfdir=/etc \
            --libexecdir=/usr/lib/udisks \
            --localstatedir=/var &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Command Explanations

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

Contents

Installed Programs: udisks-dm-export, udisks-part-id, udisks-probe-ata-smart, udisks-probe-sas-expander, umount.udisks, udisks, udisks-tcp-bridge, udisks-daemon, udisks-helper-ata-smart-collect, udisks-helper-ata-smart-selftest, udisks-helper-change-filesystem-label, udisks-helper-change-luks-password, udisks-helper-create-partition, udisks-helper-create-partition-table, udisks-helper-delete-partition, udisks-helper-drive-benchmark, udisks-helper-drive-detach, udisks-helper-drive-poll, udisks-helper-fstab-mounter, udisks-helper-linux-md-check, udisks-helper-linux-md-remove-component, udisks-helper-mdadm-expand, udisks-helper-mkfs, and udisks-helper-modify-partition
Installed Library: libudisks-action-lookup.{so,a}
Installed Directories: /usr/lib/udisks, /var/{lib/udisks,run/udisks}

Short Descriptions

udisks

is a command line tool.

udisks-tcp-bridge

is a udisks TCP/IP bridge.

udisks-daemon

is the udisks Daemon.

libudisks-action-lookup.{so,a}

is a polkit extension.

Last updated on 2011-11-08 16:57:34 +0000