ZumDisks

ZumDisks – { Mount / Unmount Block Devices }

ZumDisks is a simple Zenity front-end to udisks and udisksctl, useful for handling the mounting / unmounting of partitions on internal and removable disks. The interface is simple and self explanatory.

{ Program Options }

This is the interface of ZumDisks:

The “Mountable Devices” is a drop-down that displays the partitions (internal and removable) that can be mounted at runtime. To mount a device select it from the drop-down and click on the “Mount/Unmount/Refresh” button.

The “Mounted Devices” displays a list of devices currently mounted.

The “Unmountable Devices” is a drop-down that displays the partitions that can be unmounted at runtime. To unmount a device, select it from the drop-down and click on the “Mount/Unmount/Refresh” button.

NOTE: System partitions (/, /home, /usr, /tmp, etc) are NOT available in this drop-down menu, as they may NOT be unmounted at runtime.

Lastly, there is a help drop-down menu, labelled “Click drop-down Help”, summarizing the program’s operation.

{ Program Setup }

This program is going to be installed by default in your $HOME/bin directory. If you have not set your $HOME/bin in the $PATH, see this snippet in our Knowledge Base.

To run this program, you need to have the following packages installed in your system (Check with your package manager):

zenity
sudo
udisks or udisks2 (or both, although udisks2 takes precedence)

Once the above packages are installed, download ZumDisks from the link towards the bottom and do the following:

Move the downloaded tar file into your home directory

Expand the tar file in a terminal by issuing: tar xf ZumDisks_<version>.tar

Invoke the program from the terminal, running RoughPad to ensure that it loads properly and no error messages are shown

If everything has gone ok, you should be able to find the program in the “System Tools” program group in your desktop manager.

{ Downloads }

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{ Source Code }

“ZumDisks” on Github

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