gio.Volume Volume management. Synopsis gio.Volume gobject.GInterface can_eject can_mount eject callback flagsgio.MOUNT_UNMOUNT_NONE cancellableNone user_dataNone eject_finish result enumerate_identifiers get_activation_root get_drive get_icon get_identifier get_mount get_name get_uuid mount mount_operation callback flagsgio.MOUNT_MOUNT_NONE cancellableNone user_dataNone mount_finish result should_automount Ancestry +-- gobject.GInterface +-- gio.Volume Prerequisites gio.Volume requires gobject.GObject gio.Volume Signal Prototypes gobject.GObject Signal Prototypes "changed" callback volume user_param1 ... "removed" callback volume user_param1 ... Description The gio.Volume interface represents user-visible objects that can be mounted. Note, when porting from GnomeVFS, gio.Volume is the moral equivalent of GnomeVFSDrive. Mounting a gio.Volume instance is an asynchronous operation. For more information about asynchronous operations. To mount a gio.Volume, first call gio.Volume.mount() with (at least) the gio.Volume instance, optionally a gio.MountOperation object and a GAsyncReadyCallback. Typically, one will only want to pass None for the GMountOperation if automounting all volumes when a desktop session starts since it's not desirable to put up a lot of dialogs asking for credentials. The callback will be fired when the operation has resolved (either with success or failure), and a GAsyncReady structure will be passed to the callback. That callback should then call gio.Volume.mount_finish() with the GVolume instance and the GAsyncReady data to see if the operation was completed successfully. If an error is present when gio.Volume.mount_finish() is called, then it will be filled with any error information. It is sometimes necessary to directly access the underlying operating system object behind a volume (e.g. for passing a volume to an application via the commandline). For this purpose, GIO allows to obtain an 'identifier' for the volume. There can be different kinds of identifiers, such as Hal UDIs, filesystem labels, traditional Unix devices (e.g. /dev/sda2), uuids. GIO uses predefind strings as names for the different kinds of identifiers: "hal-udi", "label", etc. Use gio.Volume.get_identifier() to obtain an identifier for a volume. Methods gio.Volume.can_eject can_eject Returns : True if the volume can be ejected, False otherwise. The can_eject() method checks if a volume can be ejected. gio.Volume.can_mount can_mount Returns : True if the volume can be mounted for media changes, False otherwise. The can_mount() method checks if a volume can be mounted. gio.Volume.eject eject callback flagsgio.MOUNT_UNMOUNT_NONE cancellableNone user_dataNone callback : A GAsyncReadyCallback to call when the request is satisfied. flags : flags affecting the unmount if required for eject. cancellable : Optional gio.Cancellable object, None to ignore. user_data : The data to pass to callback function. The eject() method asynchronously ejects a volume. When the operation is finished, callback will be called. You can then call gio.Volume.eject_finish() to obtain the result of the operation. gio.Volume.eject_finish eject_finish result result : a gio.AsyncResult. Returns : True if the volume has been ejected successfully, False otherwise. The eject_finish() method finishes ejecting a volume. If any errors occured during the operation, error will be set to contain the errors and False will be returned. gio.Volume.enumerate_identifiers enumerate_identifiers Returns : a list of strings containing kinds of identifiers. The enumerate_identifiers() method gets the kinds of identifiers that volume has. Use gio.Volume.get_identifier() to obtain the identifiers themselves. gio.Volume.get_activation_root get_activation_root Returns : the activation root of volume or None. The get_activation_root() method gets the activation root for a gio.Volume if it is known ahead of mount time. Returns None otherwise. If not None and if volume is mounted, then the result of gio.Mount.get_root() on the GMount object obtained from gio.Volume.get_mount() will always either be equal or a prefix of what this function returns. In other words, in code: mount = volume.get_mount() # mounted, so never None mount_root = mount.get_root() volume_activation_root = volume.get_activation_root() # assume not None then the expression volume_activation_root.has_prefix(mount_root) || volume_activation_root.equal(mount_root) will always be True. Activation roots are typically used in gio.VolumeMonitor implementations to find the underlying mount to shadow, see gio.Mount.is_shadowed() for more details. gio.Volume.get_drive get_drive Returns : A gio.Drive or None if volume is not associated with a drive. The get_drive() method gets the drive for the volume. gio.Volume.get_icon get_icon Returns : gio.Icon for the volume. The get_icon() method gets the icon for volume. gio.Volume.get_identifier get_identifier Returns : A string containing the requested identfier, or None if the gio.Volume doesn't have this kind of identifier. The get_identifier() method gets the identifier of the given kind for volume. gio.Volume.get_mount get_mount Returns : A gio.Mount or None if volume isn't mounted. The get_mount() method gets the mount for the volume. gio.Volume.get_name get_name Returns : A string containing volume's name. The get_name() method gets the name of volume. gio.Volume.get_uuid get_uuid Returns : the UUID for volume or None if no UUID can be computed. The get_uuid() method gets the UUID for the volume. The reference is typically based on the file system UUID for the volume in question and should be considered an opaque string. Returns None if there is no UUID available. gio.Volume.mount mount mount_operation callback flagsgio.MOUNT_MOUNT_NONE cancellableNone user_dataNone mount_operation : A gio.MountOperation or None to avoid user interaction. callback : A GAsyncReadyCallback to call when the request is satisfied. flags : Flags affecting the operation cancellable : Optional gio.Cancellable object, None to ignore. user_data : The data to pass to callback function. The mount() method mounts a volume. This is an asynchronous operation, and is finished by calling gio.Volume.mount_finish() with the volume and GAsyncResult returned in the callback. gio.Volume.mount_finish mount_finish result result : a gio.AsyncResult. Returns : True if the volume has been mounted successfully, False otherwise. The mounted() method finishes mounting a volume. If any errors occured during the operation, error will be set to contain the errors and False will be returned. If the mount operation succeeded, get_mount() on volume is guaranteed to return the mount right after calling this function; there's no need to listen for the 'mount-added' signal on gio.VolumeMonitor. gio.Volume.should_automount should_automount Returns : True if the volume should be automatically mounted. The should_automount() method returns whether the volume should be automatically mounted. Signals The "changed" gio.Volume Signal callback volume user_param1 ... volume : the volume user_param1 : the first user parameter (if any) specified with the connect() method ... : additional user parameters (if any) Emitted when the volume has been changed. The "removed" gio.Volume Signal callback volume user_param1 ... volume : the volume user_param1 : the first user parameter (if any) specified with the connect() method ... : additional user parameters (if any) This signal is emitted when the gio.Volume have been removed. If the recipient is holding references to the object they should release them so the object can be finalized.