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Situation: Ubuntu-mount USB drive on the system by a terminal command, same as Ubuntu's GUI mount Configurations

# http://askubuntu.com/q/648159/25388
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.media-handling automount-open false
  • Command ls /media/masi gives blank.
  • You see the disk icon in the panel. If you click it, the file-manager opens. Now, you can ls /media/masi and you see the disk.

My unsuccessful script

USER="masi"
LABEL="MasiWeek" # https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/297425/16920
PARTION="sdb" #$(basename $(readlink $LABEL))
sudo mkdir -p /media/"$USER"/"$LABEL"
sudo mount /dev/"$PARTITION" /media/"$USER"/"$LABEL"

  • Output

    mount:  /dev is not a block device

System: Linux Ubuntu 16.04 64 bit
Hardware: Macbook Air 2013-mid
Related: Find kernel name for a partition when only the label is known

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Your script is not working because of a spelling error in the definition of PARTITION.

Because of this, PARTITION is empty (while PARTION contains what you want) and /dev/$PARTITION becomes /dev/.

Note that the variable $USER already contains the username, so no need to set it (unless you want to do the mounting from a different user).

Graipher
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  • This is not what I mean by Ubuntu's mount. It is the GUI mount, not the terminal mount explicitly. – Léo Léopold Hertz 준영 Jul 27 '16 at 13:02
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    To get exactly the same thing as ubuntu's mount, see @steeldriver's answer. This was just to point out the flaw in your script (which should work with that fix, but require sudo privileges, in contrast to gvfs-mount) – Graipher Jul 27 '16 at 13:35
  • What do you think about mount -L MasiWeek /media/masi/MasiWeek? I cannot think that Ubuntu's mount works without label. – Léo Léopold Hertz 준영 Jul 27 '16 at 13:43
  • But again, the GUI mounting does not need any additional privileges, so it cannot be the normal mount, which does. – Graipher Jul 27 '16 at 13:45
  • I am not sure if there is a way for it. – Léo Léopold Hertz 준영 Jul 27 '16 at 13:45
  • It does not have to do it in one command, though. Maybe it gets the label of the drive via blkid /dev/sdb1, creates the mountpoint if necessary with that label and then uses gvfs-mount -d /dev/sdb1 or similar to mount it. But I'm really just guessing here. – Graipher Jul 27 '16 at 13:49
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The equivalent to the Ubuntu GUI's mount action for removable media would be

gvfs-mount -d device

or

gvfs-mount --device=device

where device is a block device such as /dev/sdb. Note that this command is executed as the owner of the current desktop session, and will mount the device into a directory such as /media/<user>/<label> rather than to a system-wide mount point like /mnt/<label>. For example, mounting a USB stick:

$ gvfs-mount --device=/dev/sdb
Mounted /dev/sdb at /media/steeldriver/KINGSTON

To determine the block device to use in the gvfs-mount command, you could use blkid however the cache may not accurately reflect removable devices, so you'd need to run

sudo blkid -c /dev/null

which clears the cache before enumerating the devices - but that requires administrative privileges. For a non-privileged method, you could examine the output of gvfs-mount --list --detail for a string identifying the volume - such as

Drive(2): Kingston DT Elite 3.0
  Type: GProxyDrive (GProxyVolumeMonitorUDisks2)
  ids:
   unix-device: '/dev/sdb'

To unmount, you can use gvfs-mount -u or gvfs-mount --unmount e.g.

gvfs-mount --unmount /media/steeldriver/KINGSTON
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@cas' comment in comments is more strict than gvfs-mount because it has also label option, thus avoiding possible complications better; I think Ubuntu use's the label option for stability so I doubt if gvfs-mount --mount is used at all by default

mount -L MasiWeek /media/masi/MasiWeek
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