On Sun, 2016-12-04 at 18:18 -0500, Max Pyziur wrote:
On Sun, 4 Dec 2016, Ahmad Samir wrote:
> On 4 December 2016 at 20:06, Max Pyziur <pyz(a)brama.com> wrote:
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > In Xfce, can flash drives be mounted from the command line w/o superuser
> > privileges?
> >
>
> Yes, for removable drives; you can use udisks (which is what most file
> manager use IIUC):
> $ udisksctl mount --block-device /dev/sdXY
>
> you can find the device (/dev/sdXY) node by examining the output of
> `dmesg | tail` after plugging the flash drive.
>
> > So far, I've only mounted them from the Desktop or file manager.
> >
> > Also, can they be (re)named from the command line?
> >
> >
>
> To change a partition label I think you need root access.
>
> [..]
Much thanks for both recommendations; always great to get a few more CLI
tools in hand.
Note that none of this depends in any way on which DE you are using
(just saying because your question mentioned XFCE specifically).
poc