UDISKS(7)							      udisks								 UDISKS(7)

NAME

       udisks - Storage Management

DESCRIPTION

       udisks provides an interface to enumerate storage devices and perform operations on them. Any application can access the
       org.freedesktop.UDisks service on the system message bus. Some operations (such as formatting disks etc.) is restricted using polkit.

DEVICE INFORMATION

       On Linux, udisks relies on recent versions of udev(7) and the kernel. Influential device properties in the udev database include:

       UDISKS_PRESENTATION_HIDE
	   If set to 1 this is a hint to presentation level software that the device should not be shown to the user.

       UDISKS_PRESENTATION_NOPOLICY
	   If set to 1 this is a hint to presentation level software that the device should not be automounted or autoassembled (for e.g.
	   components of a multi-disk device).

       UDISKS_DISABLE_POLLING
	   If set to 1 this will disable the polling of drives for media changes, for devices which do not send out media notifications by
	   themselves (this mostly affects CD drives). Some CD drives cause bad effects such as very high CPU usage when being polled.

       UDISKS_PRESENTATION_NAME
	   The name to user for the device when presenting it to the user.

       UDISKS_PRESENTATION_ICON_NAME
	   The icon to use when presenting the device to the user. If set, the name must follow the freedesktop.org icon theme specification.

       The ID_DRIVE_* properties are used to describe what kind of physical media can be used in a device. These are typically set on the main
       block device (e.g.  /dev/sdb) and more than one these properties can be set if the device supports multiple kinds of media.

       ID_DRIVE_EJECTABLE
	   Whether the media in the drive is physically ejectable. Only set this to 1 (or 0) if the drive truly uses (or doesn't) ejectable media.
	   In particular, it is not necessary to set this for e.g. iPod or Kindle devices where it is necessary to send a command via eject(1)
	   since the desktop user session will offer this option for removable devices regardless of whether they are ejectable. If this property
	   is not set, a heuristic will be used to determine if the media is ejectable (drives using optical, Zip or Jaz media are considered
	   ejectable).

       ID_DRIVE_DETACHABLE
	   Whether the device is detachable. It is only meaningful to set this to 0 (to avoid marking a device as detachable) since the code for
	   detaching the device is part of udisks itself. If this property is not set, a heuristic will be used to determine if the drive is
	   detachable (currently only devices connected through USB are detachable).

       ID_DRIVE_CAN_SPINDOWN
	   Whether the device can spin down. It is only meaningful to set this to 0 (to avoid marking a device as being capable of spinning down)
	   since the code for spinning down the device is part of udisks itself. If this property is not set, a heuristic will be used to
	   determine if the drive can spin down (currently only ATA devices, including those USB devices with a SAT layer) can be spun down).

       ID_DRIVE_FLASH
	   The device is compatible with flash.

       ID_DRIVE_FLASH_CF
	   The device is compatible with Compact Flash.

       ID_DRIVE_FLASH_MS
	   The device is compatible with Memory Stick.

       ID_DRIVE_FLASH_SM
	   The device is compatible with SmartMedia.

       ID_DRIVE_FLASH_SD
	   The device is compatible with SecureDigital.

       ID_DRIVE_FLASH_SDHC
	   The device is compatible with High-Capicity SecureDigital.

       ID_DRIVE_FLASH_MMC
	   The device is compatible with MultiMediaCard.

       ID_DRIVE_FLOPPY
	   The device is compatible with floppy disk.

       ID_DRIVE_FLOPPY_ZIP
	   The device is compatible with Zip.

       ID_DRIVE_FLOPPY_JAZ
	   The device is compatible with Jaz.

       The ID_DRIVE_MEDIA_* properties describe the current media in a device. As with the ID_DRIVE_* properties, these properties are typically
       set on the main block device (e.g.  /dev/sdb). Typically only one of these properties are set.

       ID_DRIVE_MEDIA_FLASH
	   The physical media currently inserted into the device is flash.

       ID_DRIVE_MEDIA_FLASH_CF
	   The physical media currently inserted into the device is Compact Flash.

       ID_DRIVE_MEDIA_FLASH_MS
	   The physical media currently inserted into the device is Memory Stick.

       ID_DRIVE_MEDIA_FLASH_SM
	   The physical media currently inserted into the device is SmartMedia.

       ID_DRIVE_MEDIA_FLASH_SD
	   The physical media currently inserted into the device is SecureDigital.

       ID_DRIVE_MEDIA_FLASH_SDHC
	   The physical media currently inserted into the device is High-Capicity SecureDigital.

       ID_DRIVE_MEDIA_FLASH_MMC
	   The physical media currently inserted into the device is MultiMediaCard.

       ID_DRIVE_MEDIA_FLOPPY
	   The physical media currently inserted into the device is floppy disk.

       ID_DRIVE_MEDIA_FLOPPY_ZIP
	   The physical media currently inserted into the device is Zip.

       ID_DRIVE_MEDIA_FLOPPY_JAZ
	   The physical media currently inserted into the device is Jaz.

REMOTE CLIENTS

       TODO: write me.

AUTHOR

       Written by David Zeuthen david@fubar.dk with a lot of help from many others.

BUGS

       Please send bug reports to either the distribution bug tracker or the upstream bug tracker at
       http://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=udisks.

SEE ALSO

       udev(7), polkit(8), udisks-daemon(8), udisks-tcp-bridge(1), udisks(1)

udisks								    March 2008								 UDISKS(7)