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Mounting External Drives on Linux without root from the terminal (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi friends,

I have some external hard drives and SSDs, which I use with my Debian 11 machine. I normally use them through the GUI file manager(pcmanfm-qt). I tried to access them from the terminal using commands I found after searching the web, like, fdisk, mount etc. However, the issue is that I have to use sudo when using these commands and as a result after mounting I cannot make changes to my files in the drive(s) without using sudo. The only way to avoid using sudo, is to first go to the required folder in the GUI file manager and then opening the folder in terminal. Is there a way to forego using the GUI file manager completely and only using the terminal entirely to properly access my drives and make changes without using sudo?

EDIT: Someone suggested usbmount. I am sure that works, but it is not packaged for Debian. Instead, as suggested, by another person, I use pmount. It works perfectly for my needs on Debian. Thanks to all for taking the time to respond and help me with my problem.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Is it just me that dislikes when packages are mentioned instead of a series of terminal commands? I don't want to install a package. Why would I want to rely on a package and it's maintainer when I could write a shell script using the tools native to my OS?

Is this unreasonable or just unpopular?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That and every command preceded by sudo.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Just..

$ sudo su

..bam, no more sudo. And likely no more system within a few sessions 🫣

Solution? Just don't make mistakes. Ezpz. /s

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

sudo su -

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I know you're joking anyways, but I always cringe when I see that. There's no need to invoke su there. If you want a root shell, use sudo -s or sudo -i depending on what kind of shell you want.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Is it just me that dislikes when packages are mentioned instead of a series of terminal commands? I don’t want to install a package. Why would I want to rely on a package and it’s maintainer when I could write a shell script using the tools native to my OS?

Yes, that's just you and probably explains why you are on a programming Lemmy instance. Personally I like to use the terminal myself for reasons including starting some GUI applications but I am sure that most people ("normies") would run away screaming if the first moment they would spot a terminal. See, everyone has their own preferences :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I have no critique of anyone's preference. I joined the linux board looking for discussions on novel ways to use the system.

Since I haven't found that here, I thought I'd add a comment to see if it's just me. And I wanted to check to see if there is an alternative forum for such conversations.

Maybe a shell, bash, scripting, or man page community. Idk.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Since I haven’t found that here, I thought I’d add a comment to see if it’s just me. And I wanted to check to see if there is an alternative forum for such conversations.

Maybe a shell, bash, scripting, or man page community. Idk.

Right. It's in my opinion not so easy to find communities or finding people wanting to share the same interests. How about these ?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Yeah the search tool isn't the greatest, tho I expect third party maps of communities will spring up at some point.

Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

If you want to invent and maintain your wheel then go ahead.. but I think we have better things to do than maintaining half the code of an operating system.

Udisksctl has a variety of relevant features, and it works good, kind of.