udisks is a daemon that implements well-defined D-Bus interfaces that can be used to query and manipulate storage devices.
Questions tagged [udisks]
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How to use zbus to list block devices?
I want to list all the available block devices in the system using a dbus implementation called zbus.
The UDisks2 documentation mentions a method call on org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Manager interface called GetBlockDevices which accepts IN a{sv}…
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How to list all the removable devices with DBus and UDisks2?
I need to list, filter and open block devices with UDisks2. I am trying to list all the removable devices.
The GetBlockDevices method provided by UDisks2 requires a a{sv} type. If I am not mistaken, it's a HashTable of string keys and Variant…
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What is the interface I have to inspect for detecting connected USB?
I'm trying to detect that a USB device was plugged or removed from within a qt programm via the method: http://doc.qt.io/qt-4.8/qdbusconnection.html#connect
My current code of the corresponding class looks like this:
#include "usbhandler.h"
#include…
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Unmount a drive with python with udisks2 via dbus
I'm trying to achieve the title.
Here is my code:
from dbus_next.aio import MessageBus
async def unmount_device(device_path):
bus = await MessageBus().connect()
udisk_obj = bus.get_proxy_object('org.freedesktop.UDisks2', device_path)
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is there a way to determine udisks default mount path?
It can be /media/ or /media/$USER or /run/media/$USER depends on distro or customization. Is there a unified way to get its value programmatically regardless distros?
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Conditional actions depending on error output
Is there a way to perform an if statement based on the error output of a command?
For example, I want to use udisksctl in a script which mounts a USB drive and then perform some action on the drive contents.
The drive is not mounted: it should…
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(auto-)mount (usb-)drives through udisk2 dbus api from python
I've got a python daemon that controls an audio player.
Now I want this daemon to monitor USB disks inserted and add their content to the mpd media library.
One part of this is a udisk client that waits for disks inserted and then immediately mounts…
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How to confirm whether a block device is not being written anymore after a file write?
When I finish writing a file into a device block (for example, /dev/sda), I have to wait a while to ensure that the buffer is still not being written anymore to the device. I have to set a callback to trigger a UI event when that finishes.
I have…
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How to correctly manage references returned by g_dbus_interface_get_object()
I have an application in which I'm using UDisks to handle some drives and partitions. In my application I have a situation where I have a pointer to a UDisksDrive that I need to convert to a UDisksObject pointer through which I can access other…
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How to mount a device read-only with Python3 and Udisks2?
I need to (temporary) mount a device read-only with Python3 and the Udisks2 API. What is the correct GLib.Variant for this?
I've created the below script to test with a USB pen drive. It assumes /dev/sdc1 as this device.
#! /usr/bin/env…
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Udisk - Error creating mount point no such file or directory
I'm trying to automatically mount a USB drive on linux. With all default settings it works and the drive is mounted to /run/media/username/drivename.
I tried to change the default mount point to /media/drivename by following the guide linked here:…
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