How to mount from command line like the Nautilus does?
On my Ubuntu linux box I can easily mount USB connected drives or CDROM clicking on devices icons that I can found on the Desktop.
For example if I click on a USB connected drive icon the following things happen:
- a /media/LABEL directory is automatically created (where LABEL is the label of the disk and may vary from disk to disk)
- the filesystem on the device is mounted on /media/LABEL
This process is significantly different from mounting using the mount command. In particular:
- you don't need to be root (or you don't need to modify /etc/fstab to allow ordinary user to mount the device)
- the /media/LABEL directory is automatically created
- the name of the directory changes according the volume label.
There is a command line command that behaves like the Gnome GUI mounting facilities does?
Answer
What you are looking for is gio mount (it recently replaced gvfs-mount, which replaced gnome-mount).
There is a man page here or you can just type gio help mount for the details
The basic usage is:
gio mount --list --detail to get a list of mounted and mountable volumes
gio mount [-u] <volume> to [un]mount it, e.g. gio mount smb://server/share or gio mount WINDOWS.
Sadly, there seems to be a bug that results in a "Error mounting location: volume doesn't implement mount" message trying to mount by volume name, but gvfs-mount -d /dev/<devicename> might work.