libblockdev | A library for manipulating block devices

libblockdev is a C library. libblockdev has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Weak Copyleft License and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

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). For more information about the library's architecture see the specs.rst file. For more infomation about the expected functionality and features see the features.rst file. For information about development and contributing guidelines see the README.DEVEL.rst file. For more information about the API see the generated documentation at