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.
GNOME Disks, a graphical application for storage management
UDisks is used by most of the graphical desktop environment like GNOME, KDE and Xfce for basic storage operations — detecting new storage devices and mounting them, unlocking encrypted devices, detecting failing disks or working with images. Because of this UDisks is preinstalled in most distributions and widely used.
Storage APIs 