Disk Mounting Management

Disk mounting in Linux has various ways to do it. We will go through from the commonly used to the conveniently used methods.

Most Convenient (Commonly Used on OS level)

To Mount

To Unmount

Most Basic (Manual)

To Mount

To Unmount

Most Convenient (Commonly Used on OS level)

The commonly used version is the udisksctl command. It is straight forward, automatic, and without the need of root privilege.

To Mount

To mount, the command pattern is:

$ udisksctl mount --block-device <device partitions>

It will automatically creates a directory using the device label and mount it at /media/<username>/<device label>

There are a bunch of flags to use. Here are the list of its descriptions:

Usage:

  udisksctl mount [OPTION...]

Mount a filesystem.

Options:

  -p, --object-path         Object to mount

  -b, --block-device        Block device to mount

  -t, --filesystem-type     Filesystem type to use

  -o, --options             Mount options

  --no-user-interaction     Do not authenticate the user if needed

Here is the example command:

$ udisksctl mount -b /dev/sdb1

Mounted /dev/sdb1 at /media/u0/usbPartitionLabel.

To Unmount

To unmount a device, we use the unmount function. The command pattern is:

$ udisksctl unmount --block-device <device partitions>

There are a bunch of flags to use. Here are the list of its descriptions:

Usage:

  udisksctl unmount [OPTION...]

Unmount a filesystem.

Options:

  -p, --object-path         Object to unmount

  -b, --block-device        Block device to unmount

  -f, --force               Force/lazy unmount

  --no-user-interaction     Do not authenticate the user if needed

Here is an example command:

$ udisksctl unmount -b /dev/sdb1

Unmounted /dev/sdb1.

Most Basic (Manual)

The most manual and common way is to use mount and umount commands. This is the most manual and used everywhere including system boot. You need root access to perform these manual steps.

To Mount

To mount, you need to make or use an existing directory and the mount commands. The pattern is as follows:

$ mkdir -p <directory_name>  # optional

$ mount <device_partition> <directory_name>

Here are some examples (they are not sequenced, just to show)

# mount an existing remapped logical volume

$ mount /dev/mapper/localstore--root /mnt

# use the existing temporary mount point

$ mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt

# create your own directory

$ mkdir -p origin && mount /dev/sdb1 ./origin

To Unmount

To unmount, you need to use the umount command and then manually remove the directory if your created one. The pattern is as follows:

$ umount <directory_name OR device_partition>

$ rm -r <directory_name> # optional, if you created one yourself

Here are some examples (they are not sequenced, just for show):

# unmount from device partition

$ umount /dev/mapper/localstore--root

# umount from mounted directory

$ umount /mnt

# umount and remove your own directory

$ umount ./origin && rm -r ./origin

That's all about Linux disk mounting management

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