UDISKSCTL(1) udisksctl UDISKSCTL(1)NAME
udisksctl - udisks command line tool
SYNOPSIS
udisksctl info {--object-path OBJECT | --block-device DEVICE}
udisksctl mount {--object-path OBJECT | --block-device DEVICE}
[--filesystem-type TYPE] [--options OPTIONS...]
[--no-user-interaction]
udisksctl unmount {--object-path OBJECT | --block-device DEVICE}
[--force] [--no-user-interaction]
udisksctl unlock {--object-path OBJECT | --block-device DEVICE}
[--no-user-interaction]
udisksctl lock {--object-path OBJECT | --block-device DEVICE}
[--no-user-interaction]
udisksctl monitor
udisksctl dump
udisksctl help
DESCRIPTION
udisksctl is a command-line program used to interact with the
udisksd(8) daemon process.
COMMANDS
mount
Mounts a device. The device will be mounted in a subdirectory in
the /media hierarchy - upon successful completion, the mount point
will be printed to standard output.
The device will be mounted with a safe set of default options. You
can influence the options passed to the mount(8) command with
--options. Note that only safe options are allowed - requests with
inherently unsafe options such as suid or dev that would allow the
caller to gain additional privileges, are rejected.
unmount
Unmounts a device previously mounted by udisksd(8). The option
--force can be used to request that the device is unmounted even if
active references exists.
unlock
Unlocks an encrypted device. The passphrase will be requested from
the controlling terminal and upon successful completion, the
cleartext device will be printed to standard output.
lock
Locks a device previously unlocked by udisksd(8).
monitor
Monitors the daemon for events.
dump
Prints the current state of the daemon.
help
Prints help and exit.
COMMON OPTIONS
The option --no-user-interaction can be used to request that no
interaction (such as the user being presented with an authentication
dialog) must occur when checking with polkit(8) whether the caller is
authorized to perform the requested action.
AUDIENCE
This program does not assume that the caller is the super user - it is
intended to be used by unprivileged users and authorizations are
checked by the udisks daemon using polkit(8). Additionally, this
program is not intended to be used by scripts or other programs -
options/commands may change in incompatible ways in the future even in
maintenance releases. Scripts and/or other programs should either use
the D-Bus APIs of udisksd(8) or native low-level commands such as
mount(8).
BASH COMPLETION
udisksctl ships with a bash completion script to complete commands,
objects, block devices and some options.
AUTHOR
Written by David Zeuthen zeuthen@gmail.com with a lot of help from many
others.
BUGS
Please send bug reports to either the distribution bug tracker or the
upstream bug tracker at
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=udisks.
SEE ALSOudisks(8), udisksd(8), polkit(8)udisks April 2008 UDISKSCTL(1)