The SmartWare Virtual CD partition on these drives is useless in Linux. It includes Windows/Mac utilities only, and is not usable space. This portion of the drive should probably be ignored on Linux desktops. P: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0/host14/target14:0:0/14:0:0:1/block/sr1 N: sr1 S: block/11:1 S: scd1 S: disk/by-id/usb-WD_Virtual_CD_070A_575839304137395737383234-0:1 S: disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1d.7-usb-0:2:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:1 S: disk/by-label/WD\x20SmartWare S: cdrom3 E: UDEV_LOG=3 E: DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0/host14/target14:0:0/14:0:0:1/block/sr1 E: MAJOR=11 E: MINOR=1 E: DEVNAME=/dev/sr1 E: DEVTYPE=disk E: SUBSYSTEM=block E: ID_CDROM=1 E: ID_CDROM_MRW=1 E: ID_CDROM_MRW_W=1 E: ID_CDROM_MEDIA=1 E: ID_VENDOR=WD E: ID_VENDOR_ENC=WD\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20 E: ID_VENDOR_ID=1058 E: ID_MODEL=Virtual_CD_070A E: ID_MODEL_ENC=Virtual\x20CD\x20070A\x20 E: ID_MODEL_ID=070a E: ID_REVISION=1028 E: ID_SERIAL=WD_Virtual_CD_070A_575839304137395737383234-0:1 E: ID_SERIAL_SHORT=575839304137395737383234 E: ID_TYPE=cd E: ID_INSTANCE=0:1 E: ID_BUS=usb E: ID_USB_INTERFACES=:080650: E: ID_USB_INTERFACE_NUM=00 E: ID_USB_DRIVER=usb-storage E: ID_PATH=pci-0000:00:1d.7-usb-0:2:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:1 E: ID_FS_LABEL=WD_SmartWare E: ID_FS_LABEL_ENC=WD\x20SmartWare E: ID_FS_TYPE=udf E: ID_FS_USAGE=filesystem E: ACL_MANAGE=1 E: GENERATED=1 E: DKD_PRESENTATION_HIDE=0 E: DKD_MEDIA_AVAILABLE=1 E: DKD_PARTITION_TABLE=1 E: DKD_PARTITION_TABLE_SCHEME=apm E: DKD_PRESENTATION_NOPOLICY=0 E: DEVLINKS=/dev/block/11:1 /dev/scd1 /dev/disk/by-id/usb-WD_Virtual_CD_070A_575839304137395737383234-0:1 /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1d.7-usb-0:2:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:1 /dev/disk/by-label/WD\x20SmartWare /dev/cdrom3v/sr1":
Created attachment 31077 [details] [review] git formatted patch
Created attachment 31078 [details] [review] git formatted patch whoopsie, typo
Comment on attachment 31078 [details] [review] git formatted patch I got feedback that this does not actually work. Marking this as broken, hold on. I'll followup with a better patch.
Created attachment 31257 [details] [review] git formatted patch This was confirmed to work.
Created attachment 31637 [details] [review] git formatted patch Updated to current git head for udisks renaming.
Committed. Thanks!
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