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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:
sudo pacman -S udisks2
sudo apt install udisks2
sudo xpbs-install -S udisks2
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
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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