An option to eject any auto-mounted flashdrive without requiring a password would be helpful. Possibly there's a configuration file I could add to /etc/media-automount.d? It isn't clear to me though how to do that.
Supporting Detail
A password is required to eject using udev-media-automount. I am running PeppermintOS and successfully auto-mounted an exfat formatted flash drive.
No password is required to unmount and eject if I mount the same exfat drive using the following:
mount () {
# Usage example: mount sda1
udisksctl mount --block-device /dev/$1
}
The same behavior is observed (i.e., requiring a password to unmount if mounted with automount, and not requiring a password to unmount if mounted with the above function) regardless of whether I use a file manager or the following command to eject:
unmount(){
# Function that unmounts, if needed, then powers off a USB drive
# Usage example: unmount sda1
# # original simple unmount and power off function
# udisksctl unmount -b /dev/$1 && udisksctl power-off -b /dev/$1
disk=`lsblk | grep $1` # find target disk
mounted="$(echo $disk | cut -d' ' -f7)" # parse to find mountpoint (6th column)
echo "disk = " $disk
echo "mounted = " $mounted
if [ -z "$mounted" ]
then
# $var is empty so just power off drive
echo "Power off drive $1"
udisksctl power-off -b /dev/$1
else
# $var is not empty so unmount and power off drive
echo "Unmount and power off drive $1"
udisksctl unmount -b /dev/$1 && udisksctl power-off -b /dev/$1
fi
}
Aside
Your utility has been really helpful. I had been using the above commands to mount and unmount/eject, but I had not yet figured out how to mount a Yubikey. I found your script while researching udev rules, and it worked great.
Requested Capability
An option to eject any auto-mounted flashdrive without requiring a password would be helpful. Possibly there's a configuration file I could add to
/etc/media-automount.d? It isn't clear to me though how to do that.Supporting Detail
A password is required to eject using udev-media-automount. I am running PeppermintOS and successfully auto-mounted an exfat formatted flash drive.
No password is required to unmount and eject if I mount the same exfat drive using the following:
The same behavior is observed (i.e., requiring a password to unmount if mounted with automount, and not requiring a password to unmount if mounted with the above function) regardless of whether I use a file manager or the following command to eject:
Aside
Your utility has been really helpful. I had been using the above commands to mount and unmount/eject, but I had not yet figured out how to mount a Yubikey. I found your script while researching udev rules, and it worked great.