Graphical Mount Command

**MOGuy78** · November 8th, 2019

Does anyone know of a good graphical front-end for the USB mount command?

**tea for one** · November 9th, 2019

gnome-disks is a graphical utility.

However, after inserting a USB device, you'll find that it is probably already mounted.

gnome-disks will then give you the opportunity to mount and unmount as you wish.

**TheFu** · November 9th, 2019

Originally Posted by MOGuy78

Does anyone know of a good graphical front-end for the USB mount command?

Nope. At least not any that use "real" mounts. All the graphical tools seem to use Gnome gvfs/gio methods which behave poorly and have unsatifactory performance, IMHO. If you use a file manager to magically access storage, almost in every case it will be using some slow, Gnome, FUSE, driver. Yuck.

The only ways I know to get a mount using a kernel driver is to use

fstab
autofs
manual mount command from a terminal.

Sorry.

Especially with storage that uses foreign file systems like NTFS or FAT-whatever, having full control over the mount options and performance settings is highly desirable. Security is the main reason for these choices/options.

Code:

NAME
       fusermount - unmount FUSE filesystems

SYNOPSIS
       fusermount [OPTIONS] MOUNTPOINT

DESCRIPTION
       Filesystem  in  Userspace  (FUSE)  is a simple interface for userspace
       programs to export a virtual filesystem to the Linux kernel.  It  also
       aims to provide a secure method for non privileged users to create and
       mount their own filesystem implementations.

       fusermount is a program to unmount FUSE filesystems.

The fusermount command can easily be scripted, but for USB storage, I find it much more convenient to use autofs so I have control over the mount performance and security options.

Update: I took a look at Gnome disks. There is a gear/settings option for each file system discovered. In those options, it is possible to add mount options - NICE! Also, it is possible to choose a different mount location and if the "mount at startup" checkbox is selected and permissions allow, it will add the mount to the fstab.

Code:

sudo -H gnome-disks

to get the correct authorization. Don't just use sudo alone.

**MOGuy78** · November 10th, 2019

I'm sorry, but I didn't explain my situation very well. I found an old Gateway 1.6ghz that I had lying around my house, and I just wanted a simple computer I could use for web browsing and to listen to music on. Since I needed a fairly light-weight OS, I installed lxqt desktop, and am using midori web browser, xfe file manager, and a simple audio player.
So far, it seems to be working great, but one of the few problems that I'm having is that it doesn't seem to auto-mount my USB flash drives. I really don't want to mess with using the terminal, especially when working with sudo. I've been looking around online, and it seems like Udiskie may be what I'm looking for. I saw where the Gnome-disks app would work well, but as it seems to be heavy on memory, as well as that I'm not using Gnome, I doubt that would work for me.
As I said, I'd rather not mess with the cli, so would Udiskie be a good choice for my needs? or are there other GUI apps that I haven't considered? Thanks in advance.