Udisks2

The udisks snap provides a daemon and tools to access and manipulate disks and storage devices.

The tools carried by the snap allows the user to:

• Shows high-level and detailed information about disk drives and block devices.

• Mount and unmounting of block devices.

• Block device lock and unlocking.

• Manipulating loop-devices.

• Power off devices for safe removal.

• SMART functionality.

What Udisks2 Offers

The upstream udisks2 provides interfaces to enumerate and perform operations on disks and storage devices. Any snap with the udisks2:dbus interface plug can access the udisksd daemon via the name org.freedesktop.UDisks2 on the system message bus.

Upstream documentation

Documentation for the upstream project can be found at https://storaged.org/doc/udisks2-api/.