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Usage
After having installed, try starting udiskie from a terminal to check if there are any errors:
udiskie
This starts udiskie in the foreground. If no errors are shown, you are good to proceed. The process can be stopped by hitting <Ctrl>+C.
To start udiskie as a background program in a stand-alone window manager
add the following line to your ~/.xinitrc:
udiskie &
The trailing ampersand & means that the program should run in the
background. To stop udiskie, just type pkill udiskie.
In a desktop environment (such as gnome, kde, mate, xfce, cinnamon, …) you
can just add udiskie to the list of autostarted applications (without the
trailing &).
Currently, the default mode is that udiskie does automatically mount newly inserted devices and shows notifications but does not show a system tray. You can explicitly request or disable individual features using the command line. For example:
udiskie --no-automount --no-notify --tray
The same, using short options:
udiskie -ANt
Default values for options can also be specified in the config file. See the Man Page for more info.
Mounted media can be found in /media/<DEVICE> (udisks1) or
/run/media/<USERNAME>/<DEVICE> (udisks2). It is possible to configure
udisks2 to mount under /media as well, see here.
Note that it is possible to use udiskie with either udisks1 (specify -1 on
the command line) or udisks2 (-2), but I recommend using udisks2. This is
also the default setting as of udiskie 1.2.
Mount a specific device manually:
udiskie-mount /dev/sdb1
Unmount a specific device manually:
udiskie-umount /dev/sdb1
Recursively unmount and poweroff a device:
udiskie-umount /dev/sdb1 --force --detach
Alternatively, devices can be specified by…
- … UUID:
/dev/disk/by-uuid/<UUID> - … mount path (udisks1):
/media/<DEVICE> - … mount path (udisks2):
/run/media/<USER>/<DEVICE>
For further information on available program options see the Man Page.