libblockdev is a C library supporting GObject Introspection for manipulation of block devices. It has a plugin-based architecture where each technology (like LVM, Btrfs, MD RAID, Swap,...) is implemented in a separate plugin, possibly with multiple implementations (e.g. using LVM CLI or the new LVM DBus API).
Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if LFS or dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the books.
Download (HTTP): https://github.com/storaged-project/libblockdev/releases/download/3.2.0/libblockdev-3.2.0.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 60a52413f14303147c79a6f368aced92
Download size: 1.1 MB
Estimated disk space required: 16 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU
GLib-2.82.2 (GObject Introspection required for GNOME)
cryptsetup-2.7.5, keyutils-1.6.3, libatasmart-0.19, libbytesize-2.11, libnvme-1.10, and LVM2-2.03.27
btrfs-progs-6.11, GTK-Doc-1.34.0, JSON-GLib-1.10.0, mdadm-4.3, parted-3.6, smartmontools-7.4, volume_key, ndctl, and targetcli (for tests)
Install libblockdev by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ --with-python3 \ --without-escrow \ --without-gtk-doc \ --without-lvm \ --without-lvm_dbus \ --without-nvdimm \ --without-tools && make
The test suite requires targetcli, which is not a part of BLFS.
Now, as the root
user:
make install
--without-escrow
: This
switch allows building libblockdev
without volume_key installed.
--without-lvm
--without-lvm_dbus
--without-tools
: The combination of
these switches allows building libblockdev without parted-3.6
installed. Remove it if you've installed parted-3.6 and wish
to build the lvm-cache-stats or vfat-resize utilities, or wish
libblockdev to support logical
volumes.
--without-btrfs --without-mdraid
--without-tools
: The combination of these switches allows
building libblockdev without
libbytesize-2.11 installed. The --without-mdraid
option will break UDisks-2.10.1, so
don't use it unless you really know what you are doing.
--without-crypto
: This switch allows
building libblockdev without
cryptsetup-2.7.5 or keyutils-1.6.3
installed. This switch will break UDisks-2.10.1, so don't
use it unless you really know what you are doing.
--without-dm --without-lvm --without-lvm_dbus
--without-mpath
: The combination of these switches allows
building libblockdev without
LVM2-2.03.27 installed. The --without-dm
and --without-mpath
options are not in the instructions
provided by the book because LVM2-2.03.27 is
required for cryptsetup-2.7.5 and cryptsetup-2.7.5 is a recommended dependency
of libblockdev anyway.
--without-nvme
: This switch allows
building libblockdev without
libnvme-1.10 installed. This switch will break
UDisks-2.10.1, so don't use it unless you
really know what you are doing.