DEVICEKIT-DISKS(7)

NAME
DeviceKit-disks - Disk Management

DESCRIPTION

DeviceKit-disks provides an interface to enumerate block devices and perform operations on them. Any application can access the org.freedesktop.DeviceKit.Disks service on the system message bus. Some operations (such as formatting disks etc.) is restricted using PolicyKit.

DEVICE INFORMATION

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

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

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

DKD_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_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.

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 or the hal mailing list, see http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/hal. to subscribe.

SEE ALSO

DeviceKit(7), PolicyKit(8), devkit-disks-daemon(8), devkit-disks(1)