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How to quickly and easily mount a USB drive as a regular user using the command line

To mount my USB drive, I was using the traditional sudo mount /dev/sdXY /path/to/mountpoint. But because I was mounting as root, I had to prefix every operation with sudo. So how to mount it as a regular user ? Simply using udisks ($ sudo pacman -S udisks2), which is used by gvfs and various file…