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Hi friends,

I have some external hard drives and SSDs, which I use with my Debian 11 machine. I normally use them through the GUI file manager(pcmanfm-qt). I tried to access them from the terminal using commands I found after searching the web, like, fdisk, mount etc. However, the issue is that I have to use sudo when using these commands and as a result after mounting I cannot make changes to my files in the drive(s) without using sudo. The only way to avoid using sudo, is to first go to the required folder in the GUI file manager and then opening the folder in terminal. Is there a way to forego using the GUI file manager completely and only using the terminal entirely to properly access my drives and make changes without using sudo?

EDIT: Someone suggested usbmount. I am sure that works, but it is not packaged for Debian. Instead, as suggested, by another person, I use pmount. It works perfectly for my needs on Debian. Thanks to all for taking the time to respond and help me with my problem.

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[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 10 points 6 months ago

The only correct answer is udisksctl

This is what KDE Dolphin also uses. It can mount, unlock LUKS and more.

Mounts will be in /run/media/user

[–] stembolts@programming.dev 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Is it just me that dislikes when packages are mentioned instead of a series of terminal commands? I don't want to install a package. Why would I want to rely on a package and it's maintainer when I could write a shell script using the tools native to my OS?

Is this unreasonable or just unpopular?

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That and every command preceded by sudo.

[–] stembolts@programming.dev 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Just..

$ sudo su  

..bam, no more sudo. And likely no more system within a few sessions 🫣

Solution? Just don't make mistakes. Ezpz. /s

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 3 points 6 months ago
[–] Laser@feddit.de 2 points 5 months ago

I know you're joking anyways, but I always cringe when I see that. There's no need to invoke su there. If you want a root shell, use sudo -s or sudo -i depending on what kind of shell you want.

[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Is it just me that dislikes when packages are mentioned instead of a series of terminal commands? I don’t want to install a package. Why would I want to rely on a package and it’s maintainer when I could write a shell script using the tools native to my OS?

Yes, that's just you and probably explains why you are on a programming Lemmy instance. Personally I like to use the terminal myself for reasons including starting some GUI applications but I am sure that most people ("normies") would run away screaming if the first moment they would spot a terminal. See, everyone has their own preferences :)

[–] stembolts@programming.dev 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I have no critique of anyone's preference. I joined the linux board looking for discussions on novel ways to use the system.

Since I haven't found that here, I thought I'd add a comment to see if it's just me. And I wanted to check to see if there is an alternative forum for such conversations.

Maybe a shell, bash, scripting, or man page community. Idk.

[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Since I haven’t found that here, I thought I’d add a comment to see if it’s just me. And I wanted to check to see if there is an alternative forum for such conversations.

Maybe a shell, bash, scripting, or man page community. Idk.

Right. It's in my opinion not so easy to find communities or finding people wanting to share the same interests. How about these ?

[–] stembolts@programming.dev 3 points 6 months ago

Yeah the search tool isn't the greatest, tho I expect third party maps of communities will spring up at some point.

Thanks.

[–] ReversalHatchery 3 points 6 months ago

If you want to invent and maintain your wheel then go ahead.. but I think we have better things to do than maintaining half the code of an operating system.

Udisksctl has a variety of relevant features, and it works good, kind of.

[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Other commenter mentioned usbmount. Debian has a page on that https://wiki.debian.org/usbmount which mentions pmount. The latter is packaged for Debian.

[–] liberatedGuy@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago

Thanks a lot. That works.

[–] bloodfart@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I also use lxqt as a desktop environment and when I click on removable drives it uses the pmount command to present them in user space.

here’s some information

E: someone already said pmount. Good looking out lemmyreader

[–] liberatedGuy@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thanks. I don't use lxqt as my DE though. I use a custom DE based on i3. I will look into it.

[–] bloodfart@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

you can always gain 100 lbs and grow a bunch of body hair. the lxqt door remains open to you.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Maybe you are looking for a mount as USER type command

mount -t deviceFileFormat -o umask=filePermissions,gid=ownerGroupID,uid=ownerID /device /mountpoint

[–] liberatedGuy@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago

Thanks. I will try this method as well. For now, pmount seems to work fine.

[–] KindaABigDyl@programming.dev 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Have you tried usbmount?

This automatically mounts usb drives if they're vfat, ext4, or hfsplus. Options: sync,noexec,nodev,noatime,nodiratime

I believe it puts them in /media/run/DEVICE_NAME or something like that

[–] liberatedGuy@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for your response. But the Debian package is not maintained. Do you know of any other way?

[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

udisksctl mount -b /dev/yourdisk

Probably already installed. If not, it's udisks2. Needs D-bus.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 months ago
[–] Red_sun_in_the_sky@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

Use fstab maybe