I had to mount an encrypted external hdd using the command-line earlier this evening. Thanks to these instructions I was successful, but I'm left wondering what the-b
switch for the udisksctl
command does. I looked through the man page and there's no mention of it. Is it to signal that what's being decrypted is a block device?
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The -b
(--block-device
) option is for choosing a block device like /dev/sdb1
. You can find this out by typing udisksctl unlock --help
for instance; replace unlock
with mount
, unmount
and lock
and you will see the -b
option is used in the same way for all 4 cases.
The udisks command line tool udisksctl
is a command-line program used to interact with the udisksd(8) daemon process.The -b
option denotes a block-device like /dev/sdb1