[SOLVED] Auto mount USB device from command line?

[Dave Rove]

If I burn Raspbian (the Raspberry Pi distro) into an SD card, then as soon as the burn is complete, KDE's device notifier pops up the device volume-names for mounting. These are "boot" and "rootfs". I want to mount "rootfs" from the command line without sudo and without putting anything into fstab. There is evidently a KDE mechanism for doing this because if I click on the pop-up, the device will be mounted as user-readable under /media/<username>/rootfs. I'd like to do this as part of a script, though, so can the same mechanism be invoked from the user command line to mount a specific USB volume-name?

[jlittle]

I think you're looking for "udisksctl". I can't remember the usage, but the man page is good.

Regards, John Little

[Snowhog]

See:

udisksctl - The udisks command line tool

[Dave Rove]

Thanks all.

udisksctl does indeed do the job. After running "find" in the dev directory, I figured out that the command that I needed was:

udisksctl mount -b /dev/disk/by-label/rootfs