<refnamediv>
<refname>udisks</refname>
- <refpurpose>Introduction to udisks</refpurpose>
+ <refpurpose>Disk Manager</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsect1><title>DESCRIPTION</title>
<para>
udisks provides interfaces to enumerate and perform operations
- on storage devices. Any application (including unprivileged
- ones) can access the
+ on disks and storage devices. Any application (including
+ unprivileged ones) can access the
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>udisksd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
daemon via the name <emphasis>org.freedesktop.UDisks2</emphasis>
on the system message bus. In addition to the D-Bus API, a
library, <filename>libudisks2</filename> is also provided. This
library can be used from C/C++ and any high-level language with
- <ulink url="https://live.gnome.org/GObjectIntrospection">GObjectIntrospection</ulink>
+ <ulink
+ url="https://live.gnome.org/GObjectIntrospection">GObjectIntrospection</ulink>
support such as Javascript and Python.
- </para>
- <para>
- Except for providing a list of devices, support for udev
- properties as well as routines used to present the devices to
- the end user, udisks, as a system-level component, is not
- involved with what a desktop user interface shows the user. For
- GNOME see these <ulink
- url="http://git.gnome.org/browse/gvfs/tree/monitor/udisks2/what-is-shown.txt">GVfs
- notes</ulink> about what is shown in the desktop user interface
- and how to influence it.
+ udisks is only indirectly involved in what devices and objects
+ are shown in the user interface. See these
+ <ulink url="http://git.gnome.org/browse/gvfs/tree/monitor/udisks2/what-is-shown.txt">notes</ulink>
+ for what is shown in GNOME 3.
</para>
</refsect1>
more information (<ulink
url="http://udisks.freedesktop.org/docs/latest/udisks-polkit-actions.html">available
online here</ulink>).
- </para>
- <para>
Note that the <literal>x-udisks-auth</literal> option can be
used in the <filename>/etc/fstab</filename> and
<filename>/etc/crypttab</filename> files to specify that