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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Disk Utility: What's the difference between “Unmount” and “Safe Removal”?
System > Administration > Disk Utility
What's the difference between "Unmount Volume" and "Safe Removal"? Say you insert a flash drive and open the Disk Utility UI, if you click on "Safe Removal" you ...
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Is setting default mount options for udisks really not possible?
I want to mount usb drives with option flush (or sync).
I'm using Kubuntu 10.10 and as far as I understood udisks is responsible for the mount options. I've read various threads and two solutions ...
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How to make the disk utility ask for password before making modifications?
Currently, I can right click any drive that is attached to the system and click format. No password is asked at all while the data is wiped. I can also format any drive from the disk utility. This ...
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Hide icons encrypted file system partitions in Nautilus
I've installed Ubuntu 10.04 from the alternate CD.
It has an encrypted root and swap partition.
The root partition is visible in Nautilus as 'File Syste' icon.
There is another icon "216 GB ...
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How to make nautilus to mount at `/drivename` instead of `/media/drivename`?
I want to mount my other drives (mostly ntfs and fat) on /drivename by clicking on the drive icon in the nautilus side pane, where "drivename" refers to the label of the drive. By default nautilus ...
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Mount a Device Read Only using Udisk w/ Python
So I am writing a python script that is attempting to use UDisk to mount and unmount devices. I'm using something like this:
disk_dev_func = dbus.Interface(self.device_obj, ...
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udev hide partition in nautilus for specific user/group
I'm trying to hide a partition form a specific group of users in Ubuntu 12.04.
I have created a new rule in /etc/udev/rules.d/99-hide-disk.rules with
KERNEL="sda3",ENV{UDISKS_PRESENTATION_HIDE}="1"
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udisks unmount times out - Unmount failed: Did not receive a reply [closed]
I have the problem that udisks unmount gets a timeout.
I copy a large file, like 300 mb, to my 8 GB usb pen drive. It doesn't matter if I do it with dolphin or cp. I wait for dolphin/cp to finish the ...
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Nautilus uses different permissions for mounted drives
I've written two bash scripts to give read-only or read/write access to my NTFS partition:
read-only access:
sudo umount /media/Data_Drive/
sudo mount -t ntfs-3g -o ...
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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 ...
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What utility to use to clean up after a disk is suddenly disconnected?
In the event an external hard-drive is physically disconnected and the device is mounted using device-mapper, no cleanup is made.
In particular:
the directory where the drive was mounted is empty
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How can I temporarily suspend Nautilus filesystem automounting, without making permanent changes to the system and user configuration?
I have written a tool which automatically formats and copies files to USB flash drives when they are inserted. It needs the drive to be unmounted to format it.
Normally Nautilus will automatically ...
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Give external USB (ext4) drive a short name
When I plug in my USB hard drive that is formatted with an ext4 partition, the drive is mounted as expected, but at a path that contains the long UUID of the disk; something like:
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Access to NTFS partition WITH authentication
xubuntu allows by default the mounting of an ntfs partition without requesting any kind of authorization.
How can I force it to request authorization (fhe same way that synaptic requires authorization ...
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Accessing DVD or USB drive [closed]
When I insert a DVD or USB drive into the computer it does not open. Are there additional drivers that I need to install? I know the USB drive is working because I installed Ubuntu using it.
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Conditional program launcher
The problem: I have an external hard drive and sometimes the driver crashes on startup. It does restart after some time. However my torrent client is also in my startup list and all the data is on the ...
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When can I safely unplug an external drive on 12.10?
I have browsed several answers... but none seems to address my question.
As reported in bug #1067876 the options to "safely remove" an external drive is gone.
No problem! Umount is sufficient for ...
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Set mount options for removable devices on Kubuntu
I share my computer in a multiseat configuration and would like everyone to mount removable devices with a umask of 0 (ie. readable and writeable by all and sundry). Well, ideally just by group disks ...
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SSH login wakes spun-down storage drives
I'm running 12.04 on a home server/HTPC, and have several storage drives which spin down using values set in /etc/hdparm.conf.
Sometimes, logging in via ssh causes some or all of the drives to wake ...
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Can't automount two partitions at login
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04.
I wanted two of my NTFS partitions automounted on startup, so I followed the instructions on Ubuntu documentation ...
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Very frequent system problems since 12.10 upgrade
Since I recently upgraded my 12.04 install to 12.10, there is loads more instability generally. I have captured just the latest example - often occurring just after startup and login. Other random ...
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How to go back to mounting cdrom as /media/cdrom as in 12.04 and not /media/USER/TITLE as in 12.10? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to configure the default automount location?
After updating from Lubuntu 12.04 to Lubuntu 12.10 the place where CD-ROM is automounted changed, breaking some ...
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Has the the new gnome-disks (AKA Disks 3.6.1) lost the ability to manage remote disks?
I have recently upgraded to ubuntu 12.10, only to find that remote disk management was not available from the new gnome-disks. Is this a bug or something?
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Ubuntu Won't Update
I get the following error when I run
sudo apt-get update
/usr/lib/apt/methods/https: error while loading shared libraries: libkrb5support.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or ...
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One of the partion on a usb harddisk cannot automount
It is a very strange problem. My usb harddisk has four partitions, one is primary, the other three are logical (contained within an extended partition). When I plug in the disk, three of the ...
