Provided by:
udisks2_2.1.3-1_i386 
NAME
udisksctl - The udisks command line tool
SYNOPSIS
udisksctl status
udisksctl info {--object-path OBJECT | --block-device DEVICE}
udisksctl mount {--object-path OBJECT | --block-device DEVICE}
[--filesystem-type TYPE] [--options OPTIONS...]
[--no-user-interaction]
udisksctl unmount {--object-path OBJECT | --block-device DEVICE}
[--force] [--no-user-interaction]
udisksctl unlock {--object-path OBJECT | --block-device DEVICE}
[--no-user-interaction]
udisksctl lock {--object-path OBJECT | --block-device DEVICE}
[--no-user-interaction]
udisksctl loop-setup --file PATH [--read-only] [--offset OFFSET]
[--size SIZE] [--no-user-interaction]
udisksctl loop-delete {--object-path OBJECT | --block-device DEVICE}
[--no-user-interaction]
udisksctl power-off {--object-path OBJECT | --block-device DEVICE}
[--no-user-interaction]
udisksctl smart-simulate --file PATH {--object-path OBJECT |
--block-device DEVICE} [--no-user-interaction]
udisksctl monitor
udisksctl dump
udisksctl help
DESCRIPTION
udisksctl is a command-line program used to interact with the
udisksd(8) daemon process.
COMMANDS
status
Shows high-level information about disk drives and block devices.
info
Shows detailed information about OBJECT or DEVICE.
mount
Mounts a device. The device will be mounted in a subdirectory in
the /media hierarchy - upon successful completion, the mount point
will be printed to standard output.
The device will be mounted with a safe set of default options. You
can influence the options passed to the mount(8) command with
--options. Note that only safe options are allowed - requests with
inherently unsafe options such as suid or dev that would allow the
caller to gain additional privileges, are rejected.
unmount
Unmounts a device. This only works if the device is mounted. The
option --force can be used to request that the device is unmounted
even if active references exists.
unlock
Unlocks an encrypted device. The passphrase will be requested from
the controlling terminal and upon successful completion, the
cleartext device will be printed to standard output.
lock
Locks a device. This only works if the device is a cleartext device
backed by a cryptotext device.
loop-setup
Sets up a loop device backed by FILE.
loop-delete
Tears down a loop device.
power-off
Arranges for the drive to be safely removed and powered off. On the
OS side this includes ensuring that no process is using the drive,
then requesting that in-flight buffers and caches are committed to
stable storage. The exact steps for powering off the drive depends
on the drive itself and the interconnect used. For drives connected
through USB, the effect is that the USB device will be deconfigured
followed by disabling the upstream hub port it is connected to.
Note that as some physical devices contain multiple drives (for
example 4-in-1 flash card reader USB devices) powering off one
drive may affect other drives. As such there are not a lot of
guarantees associated with performing this action. Usually the
effect is that the drive disappears as if it was unplugged.
smart-simulate
Sets SMART data from the libatasmart blob given by FILE - see
/usr/share/doc/libatasmart-devel-VERSION/ for blobs shipped with
libatasmart. This is a debugging feature used to check that
applications act correctly when a disk is failing.
monitor
Monitors the daemon for events.
dump
Prints the current state of the daemon.
help
Prints help and exit.
COMMON OPTIONS
The option --no-user-interaction can be used to request that no
interaction (such as the user being presented with an authentication
dialog) must occur when checking with polkit(8) whether the caller is
authorized to perform the requested action.
AUDIENCE
This program does not assume that the caller is the super user - it is
intended to be used by unprivileged users and authorizations are
checked by the udisks daemon using polkit(8). Additionally, this
program is not intended to be used by scripts or other programs -
options/commands may change in incompatible ways in the future even in
maintenance releases. See the “API STABILITY” section of udisks(8) for
more information.
BASH COMPLETION
udisksctl ships with a bash completion script to complete commands,
objects, block devices and some options.
AUTHOR
Written by David Zeuthen <zeuthen@gmail.com> with a lot of help from
many others.
BUGS
Please send bug reports to either the distribution bug tracker or the
upstream bug tracker at
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=udisks.
SEE ALSO
udisks(8), udisksd(8), polkit(8)