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authorDavid Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com>2011-11-14 11:44:58 -0500
committerDavid Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com>2011-11-14 11:44:58 -0500
commit7cfba72e5fbf67d809327b4396395d7e0fc61500 (patch)
treec2749da89a86c9f31c5950b696c5de5b631d9ae9 /data/org.freedesktop.UDisks2.xml
parentcd77f1be9863d2456ce11815e007697f4502b203 (diff)
Allow creating partition tables with Block.Format()
Signed-off-by: David Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/data/org.freedesktop.UDisks2.xml b/data/org.freedesktop.UDisks2.xml
index 7afa94c..687709e 100644
--- a/data/org.freedesktop.UDisks2.xml
+++ b/data/org.freedesktop.UDisks2.xml
@@ -772,10 +772,11 @@
<!--
Format:
- @type: The type of file system or other content to format the device with.
+ @type: The type of file system, partition table or other content to format the device with.
@options: Options - known options (in addition to <link linkend="udisks-std-options">standard options</link>) includes <parameter>label</parameter> (of type 's'), <parameter>take-ownership</parameter> (of type 'b') and <parameter>encrypt.passphrase</parameter> (of type 's').
- Formats the device with a file system or other well-known content.
+ Formats the device with a file system, partition table or
+ other well-known content.
Known values for @type includes <constant>empty</constant> (to
just zero out areas of the device known to host file system
@@ -783,6 +784,9 @@
and most file systems supported by the <citerefentry><refentrytitle>mkfs</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
program through its <option>-t</option> option.
+ Known partition table formats includes
+ <constant>dos</constant> and <constant>gpt</constant>.
+
If @type supports it, you can specify a label with the
<parameter>label</parameter> option in the @options parameter;
however, note that this may not be supported on all file