On Sun, 2016-12-04 at 18:18 -0500, Max Pyziur wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Dec 2016, Ahmad Samir wrote:
> 
> > On 4 December 2016 at 20:06, Max Pyziur <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Greetings,
> > > 
> > > In Xfce, can flash drives be mounted from the command line w/o superuser
> > > privileges?
> > > 
> > 
> > Yes, for removable drives; you can use udisks (which is what most file
> > manager use IIUC):
> > $ udisksctl mount --block-device /dev/sdXY
> > 
> > you can find the device (/dev/sdXY) node by examining the output of
> > `dmesg | tail` after plugging the flash drive.
> > 
> > > So far, I've only mounted them from the Desktop or file manager.
> > > 
> > > Also, can they be (re)named from the command line?
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > To change a partition label I think you need root access.
> > 
> > [..]
> 
> Much thanks for both recommendations; always great to get a few more CLI 
> tools in hand.

Note that none of this depends in any way on which DE you are using
(just saying because your question mentioned XFCE specifically).

poc
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