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Udisks is a service that automatically mounts media when it is connected to the computer. The udisks daemon queries devices via the standard d-bus interface present in all freedesktop.org Desktop Environments. Udisks can also be used manually on the command-line to mount and dismount media.

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Basic usage of udisks

I'm on Ubuntu Mate 16.04. I would like someone to give me a short introduction to the basic usage of the udisks utility on Linux systems. Specifically, I would like to know how to properly mount and unmount an external USB drive.
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revert/change automount settings in 12.10

I upgraded from 12.04 to 12.10, and now my disk automount as /media/user/uuid When I was on 12.04, it was simply /media/uuid [uuid or label], and I would like to change it back. syslog: Oct 21 23:08:53 dv6 udisksd[2562]: Mounted /dev/sdc1 at…
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udisksctl power off wrong disk

I try to safely eject my external disk with the following 2 commands: udisksctl unmount -b /dev/sdc1 udisksctl power-off -b /dev/sdc The partition is correctly unmounted, but the second command gives the following error: Error powering off drive:…
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udisksd continuously logs to syslog an assertion error

/var/log/syslog is filled with this 4 times every minute or more. udisksd[30855]: udisks_mount_get_mount_path: assertion 'mount->type == UDISKS_MOUNT_TYPE_FILESYSTEM' failed How can I get more information about what is causing this?
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Unable to mount: exit code 1

I am trying to mount some of my hard drive and USB but getting this error Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with: mount: only root can mount /dev/sdd1 on /media/sdd1 how can I fix this? There is no drive by the name of…
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Where can we find udiskd's logs?

I want to see the udisksd's logs, where does it get stored and how to enable it?
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Lubuntu 386 18.04 Disks

I want to run the Disks disk manager app found in full sized Ubuntu but its not present in my Lubuntu 18.04. I think Disks is called under the hood udisks. apt-get install usdisk fails as not available. (I find a thing called udisks2 is installed,…
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