Questions tagged [udisks]
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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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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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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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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Can I hide a partition in Nautilus for a 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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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.
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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:
/media/a1f2e5f6-...
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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, "org.freedesktop.UDisks....
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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 ro,user,auto,nls=utf8,umask=...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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