USERMOUNT
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: March 13 2007
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NAME
usermount - A graphical tool to mount, unmount and format filesystems.
SYNOPSIS
usermount
[
options
]
userformat
[
options
]
device
DESCRIPTION
usermount
is a graphical tool to allow users to easily manage removable media,
such as floppy disks or zip disks. When the tool starts up, it scans
/etc/fstab
for all filesystems that have been configured to allow users to mount
and unmount them. The filesystem can be mounted or unmounted by
pressing the toggle button labeled
Mount.
Also, if the user has the appropriate permissions for the device, the
Format
button will be active. This allows the user to format disks using
fdformat
and create a new filesystem of the type listed (using
mkfs
with the appropriate option). Naturally, the user will be prompted for
confirmation before actually destroying data on the device.
Note that if a device is already mounted, the format button is
inactive for all entries that share the same device.
When run as root,
usermount
displays all of the entries in
/etc/fstab
rather than just the ones with the
user
option.
Invoking
userformat
device
allows formatting device,
as if by selecting
device
in the
userformat
window, and by clicking the
Format
button.
OPTIONS
This program has no command line options of its own, but it does take
the standard X program options like
-display
and such. See the
X(1)
man page for some of the common options.
FILES
- /etc/fstab
-
The system file describing the mountable filesystems.
SEE ALSO
mount(8),
fdformat(8),
mkfs(8),
fstab(5)
X(1)
BUGS
Mount entries with a filesystem type of iso9660 are outright
considered CD-ROMs and the format button is always disabled.
Mount entries for swap files or partitions are also ignored. A nice
feature might be to allow root to turn swap on and off for swap
partitions.
AUTHOR
Otto Hammersmith <
otto@redhat.com>