Udisks

udisks is a D-Bus daemon offering some storage related services:
 * enumeration of storage devices, much like udev but with more details.
 * mounting of filesystems.
 * partition of storage devices.
 * monitor of storage devices.
 * configuration of storage devices.

Installation
Portage knows the global USE flag udisks for enabling support for udisks in other packages. Enabling this USE flag will pull in automatically (default for desktop profiles):

The USE flags of udisks are:

After setting this you want to update your system so the changes take effect:

Addon software

 * - GNOME program to partition, configure and monitor storage devices.
 * - Automatic mount of drives.
 * - Run actions on udisks events.

Configuration
udisks uses polkit to handle permissions.

Usage
Some useful commands are:
 * upower --enumerate - Lists all storage devices.
 * upower --monitor - Monitor udisks.
 * upower --monitor-details - Monitor udisks with more details.
 * upower --inhibit-polling /dev/DEVICEFILE - Disable polling on the given device.

Troubleshooting

 * udisks communicates over D-Bus, so also see the D-Bus "Troubleshooting" section.
 * udisks communicates over D-Bus, so also see the D-Bus "Troubleshooting" section.
 * udisks communicates over D-Bus, so also see the D-Bus "Troubleshooting" section.