Re: Mounting volumes through the command line

[Cosimo Cecchi <cosimoc gnome org>]

On Fri, 2012-03-30 at 11:34 +0200, László Monda wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
> There's a second HDD in my laptop which is fully encrypted.  I saved
> its password and I can easily mount it by simply clicking on its label
> in Nautilus.  I'd like to automatically get this HDD mounted upon
> logging into Gnome.
> 
> I'm sure that it's possible somehow, either through D-Bus or by
> calling Nautilus with some arguments.  D-Bus may be more beneficial
> because it wouldn't involve any windows popping up.
> 
> Please help or direct me to somewhere where somebody can answer my question.

Hi,

with GNOME 3.4, you should be able to do this from the "Disks"
application; see [1] for more details.
If you want to do this manually or from a script, Nautilus or D-Bus are
not the right places to look at; you should be able to use the
"gvfs-mount" utility shipped with GVfs for this purpose.

[1] http://davidz25.blogspot.com/2012/03/simpler-faster-better.html

Cosimo