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

Aug 12, 2019 by dixDel

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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 managers:

$ udisks --mount /dev/sdd1
Mounted /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sdd1 at /media/KINGSTON

To find your device:

$ sudo fdisk -l

Now I can execute basic cp, mv... operations on /media/KINGSTON without having to prefix them with sudo.

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