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Install udisks2 To Manipulate Storage Devices

udisks provides a deamon udisksd, that implements D-Bus interfaces use to query and manpulate storage devices, and a command-line tool *udisksctl*, used to query and use the daemon

udisks2 is installed by defatul in most **Linux** Distros, if ins't install install it with:

Arch Linux

sudo pacman -S udisks2

Debian

sudo apt install udisks2

Void Linux

sudo xpbs-install -S udisks2

How to mount a removable drive

To manually mount an external usb drive, for example /dev/sda it will be

To mount:

udisksctl mount -b /dev/sda1

To unmount:

udisksctl unmount -b /dev/sda1

For more info

In the terminal run

udiskctl

The output it will be something like

Usage:
  udisksctl COMMAND

Commands:
  help            Shows this information
  info            Shows information about an object
  dump            Shows information about all objects
  status          Shows high-level status
  monitor         Monitor changes to objects
  mount           Mount a filesystem
  unmount         Unmount a filesystem
  unlock          Unlock an encrypted device
  lock            Lock an encrypted device
  loop-setup      Set-up a loop device
  loop-delete     Delete a loop device
  power-off       Safely power off a drive
  smart-simulate  Set SMART data for a drive

Use "udisksctl COMMAND --help" to get help on each command.

Then run something like

usdisksctl mount --help

That's it. Have fun using the terminal...

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