On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 08:58:45AM -0400, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> > We shouldn't forget that all such information are already gathered by
> > udev and all this is accessible for non-root users, try:
> >
> > udevadm info --query=all --name=sda1
>
> Some info is there, but some is available through devinfo (partitions,
> model/name, permissions, etc.)
There should be ID_PART_* variables with info about partitions in udev
db. The idea is to use these variables for udisk (and remove
UDISKS_PARTITION_* stuff).
> > maybe it would be better to create a new command with human readable
> > output for udev db rather than write all from scratch.
>
> Yep, will consider it.
> >
> > > $ devinfo -b
> > > DEVICE MAJOR:MINOR
> > > sr
> > > ââsr0 11:0
> > > ramdisk
> > > ââram0 1:0
> > > ââram1 1:1
> > > ââram10 1:10
> > > ââram11 1:11
> > > ââram12 1:12
> > > ...
> >
> > Nice, Milan Broz is working on a new command called "lsblk", the
> > command will be able to print tree of block devices (with
> > slaves/holders dependencies) -- something like "dmsetup ls --tree"
> > but for all block devices and with more information.
> >
> Interesting, actually I started to write something very similar
:-)
> (actually called lsblk, but then extended it to what you see here).
I think we can merge all to the one usable command. Now I'd like to
wait for Milan. We will see.
Karel
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