Mount drive through command line (as if I clicked on it in nautilus)

Question

I'm writing a backup script in which I need to mount a drive in the media bay of my laptop.

I know that I can get the job done by messing with fstab and the mount command. Perhaps that's the easiest way. Anyway, I'm interested in the following:

Initially the media bay drive is unmounted.
I click on the drive in the side-panel in a nautilus window and the drive is mounted.
I can access it at /media/baydrive.

My question:

Is there an easy way of performing step 2 from the command line? I.e., mount the drive to /media/<device name> without messing with fstab.

score 13 · Accepted Answer · edited May 26 '11 at 21:01

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Try udisks --mount <device name>

To mount by partition label, you can do

udisks --mount /dev/disk/by-label/baydrive

edited May 26 '11 at 21:01

RolandiXor

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answered May 26 '11 at 09:15

Florian Diesch

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Nice command, but I get Cannot stat device file baydrive: No such file or directory – aioobe May 26 '11 at 09:24
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The device name needs to be the device file used for the baydrive - something like /dev/sdb1 – Florian Diesch May 26 '11 at 09:34
Right. Then it works. You know of any way of referring to just baydrive instead? – aioobe May 26 '11 at 09:36
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No. But if the partion has a label "baydrive" you can use /dev/disk/by-label/baydrive – Florian Diesch May 26 '11 at 20:03
whoaa,. I had no idea about that. great! Edited post to include this variant – aioobe May 26 '11 at 20:12
udisks: command not found. Ubuntu 21.10. – Damn Vegetables Apr 29 '22 at 12:17

score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 03 '16 at 07:50

The most equivalent (at least for ubuntu 14.4) is

udisksctl mount --block-device /dev/disk/by-label/baydrive
udisksctl unmount --block-device /dev/disk/by-label/baydrive

The difference between udisks and udisksctl is that udisks always mount under /media, while udisksctl mount where nautilus would, which is sometimes /media/${USER}

score 2 · Answer 3 · edited Sep 12 '16 at 02:47

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If you want this to be for your user and not root try this

udisksctl mount -b /dev/sdb2

use the right name of your disk

edited Sep 12 '16 at 02:47

edwinksl

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answered Sep 11 '16 at 18:23

Yisrael Dov

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 09 '19 at 08:36

automounted drives

/media/username/driveUUID/

nautilus samba mounted drives are found in

/run/user/1000/gvfs/smb-share:server=10.100.4.16,share=share-name/path-to-folder/

or for sftp mounts you can access at

/run/usr/1000/gvfs/sftp\:host\=10.100.4.16/

TopGun · Answer 5 · 2014-03-18T02:41:16.300

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You can alternatively mount the drive, it will then appear at the side panel.. you can right click that shortcut on the side panel and lock it on the launcher.. now you will be able to simply single click that icon to mount the drive without any command, startup script or opening nautilus.

edited Mar 18 '14 at 02:41

answered Mar 17 '14 at 19:28

TopGun

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The whole point of the question is how to do this without fiddling with the GUI. I want to put the backup script as a cron job. – aioobe Mar 17 '14 at 21:24

Mount drive through command line (as if I clicked on it in nautilus)

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