UDISKSD(8)

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version 2.11.2 · 6 versions
, in arch rolling, fedora 43, fedora 44, nixpkgs unstable, ubuntu stonking

💅 UDISKSD — the udisks system daemon, bestie edition 💅

ok so this is the manual page for udisksd (that's section 8, system daemon territory, iykyk) and we're gonna walk through it together. grab a lil snack. it's not even long. 🍓

✨ NAME ✨

udisksd — the udisks system daemon. she's the background girlie holding it all together. 🌸

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

udisksd [--help] [--replace] [--debug] [--no-sigint]
        [--force-load-modules]

that's the whole summoning spell. five flags, no positional args, no drama. ✨

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so here's the tea, bestie: the udisksd program claims the org.freedesktop.UDisks2 name on the system message bus. that's literally her whole job description. main character energy fr. 👑

and here's the important bit — users and administrators should never need to start this daemon themselves. like, not even a little. she gets started automatically by dbus-daemon(1) or systemd(1) the moment some application tries to poke at her D-Bus interfaces. she just appears. iconic behavior honestly. 🦋

want more info? go read the udisks(8) man page. it's giving "there's a whole extended universe." 💖

✨ OPTIONS ✨

one bullet per flag, no skips, we respect the list in this house:

  • --help — shows you the help options. the classic "what do u do again" move. 🙈
  • --replace — replaces the existing daemon. out with the old, in with the new. 💅
  • --debug — prints debug or informational messages on stdout/stderr. for when u wanna see everything she's thinking. 👀
  • --no-sigint — do not handle SIGINT for controlled shutdown. she is simply not taking that signal today. 😭
  • --force-load-modules — activates modules on startup. no waiting around. go go go. 🔥

✨ AUTHOR ✨

this man page was originally written for UDisks2 by David Zeuthen <zeuthen@gmail.com> with a LOT of help from many others. shoutout to the whole group chat, couldn't have done it without y'all. 🫶

✨ BUGS ✨

found something cursed? please send bug reports to either the distribution bug tracker or the upstream bug tracker at:

https://github.com/storaged-project/udisks/issues

they want to hear about it, fr fr. don't suffer in silence. 💜

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

go read these next, besties:

ngl if u were about to type udisksd into a terminal by hand — bestie, put the keyboard down. dbus-daemon or systemd will handle it. that's the whole vibe. 💀

and that's a wrap on the udisks 2.11.2 era of this page, last touched way back in August 2018 and still serving looks. mwah. 💅✨🎀

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