udisks

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UDisks provides multiple tools and libraries for storage configuration and manipulation:

• udisksd

  Daemon providing DBus API for storage configuration and monitoring. UDisks DBus API is used for example by Cockpit for storage configuration or by Anaconda installer for iSCSI devices manipulation.

• libudisks

  A wrapper around UDisks DBus API allowing to use UDisks functionality directly from C or Python. libudisks is used for example by GNOME Disks.

• udiskctl

  A command line tool for storage manipulation. Allows for example (un)mounting of filesystems, (un)locking of encrypted devices, monitoring of storage events etc.

UDisks has a modular architecture and provides modules for working with some “advanced” storage technologies like LVM, Btrfs, iSCSI and NVMe.