Why udisks is not in the system
In Trusty udisks2
is installed by default and used by nautilus.
The binary is in
/usr/bin/udisksctl
found via dpkg -L udisks2 | grep bin/
from man udisksctl
NAME
udisksctl - The udisks command line tool
SYNOPSIS
udisksctl status
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 loop-setup --file PATH [--read-only] [--offset OFFSET] [--size SIZE] [--no-user-interaction]
udisksctl loop-delete {--object-path OBJECT | --block-device DEVICE} [--no-user-interaction]
udisksctl power-off {--object-path OBJECT | --block-device DEVICE} [--no-user-interaction]
udisksctl smart-simulate --file PATH {--object-path OBJECT | --block-device DEVICE} [--no-user-interaction]
udisksctl monitor
udisksctl dump
udisksctl help
Here is a short test
% sudo apt-get remove udisks2 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: arronax arronax-nautilus brasero deja-dup-backend-gvfs gnome-disk-utility gnome-shell-extensions gnome-sushi gvfs gvfs-backends gvfs-backends-goa gvfs-daemons gvfs-fuse nautilus nautilus-sendto nautilus-share software-center ubuntu-gnome-desktop udisks2 usb-creator-common usb-creator-gtk 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 20 to remove and 0 not upgraded. After this operation, 20,9 MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
% sudo apt-get remove udisks Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: udisks 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. After this operation, 1.043 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
I was using udisks to mount an NTFS partition on the same disk as the Operating System. My command looked like this
/usr/bin/udisks --mount /dev/disk/by-uuid/
I used this command in 16.04 (mint 18):
udisksctl mount --block-device /dev/disk/by-uuid/