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UDISKSCTL(1)			   udisksctl			  UDISKSCTL(1)

NAME
       udisksctl - udisks command line tool

SYNOPSIS
       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 monitor

       udisksctl dump

       udisksctl help

DESCRIPTION
       udisksctl is a command-line program used to interact with the
       udisksd(8) daemon process.

COMMANDS
       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 previously mounted by udisksd(8). 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 previously unlocked by udisksd(8).

       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. Scripts and/or other programs should either use
       the D-Bus APIs of udisksd(8) or native low-level commands such as
       mount(8).

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)

udisks				  April 2008			  UDISKSCTL(1)

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