USERMOUNT(1)

📦 version 1.114, in centos-stream 9, fedora 43, fedora 44

💖 USERMOUNT 💖

okay bestie, sit down, we're gonna talk about usermount and its lil sibling userformat — a graphical tool to mount, unmount and format filesystems. yes it's giving 2007 and yes we love her anyway 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

usermount [ options ]

userformat [ options ] device

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so usermount is a graphical tool that lets users easily manage removable media — think floppy disks, zip disks, all that nostalgic slay 🎀. when the tool starts up, it scans /etc/fstab for every filesystem that's been configured to let users mount and unmount it. you mount or unmount a filesystem by pressing the toggle button labeled Mount. that's it. that's the whole vibe ✨

also!! if you have the appropriate permissions for the device, the Format button wakes up and becomes active 👑. that lets you format disks using fdformat and create a new filesystem of the type listed (using mkfs with the appropriate option). and obviously, because we're not monsters, the user gets prompted for confirmation before anything actually destroys data on the device. safety first, always 🫶

heads up: if a device is already mounted, the format button is inactive for all entries that share that same device. not just the one you're looking at. all of them. it's giving consequences 😭

and when you run it as root? usermount shows you all the entries in /etc/fstab, not just the ones with the user option. main character energy, honestly 👑

invoking userformat device lets you format device, exactly as if you'd selected device in the userformat window and clicked the Format button. same thing, different door 🚪✨

🦋 OPTIONS 🦋

ngl, this program has no command line options of its own — but it does take the standard X program options like -display and such. go read the X(1) man page for some of the common options, iykyk 📖

🎀 FILES 🎀

  • /etc/fstab — the system file describing the mountable filesystems. the blueprint, the moment, the everything 💖

🌈 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. no notes, that's just how she is 🙈
  • 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. (devs, if you're reading this… 👀)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Otto Hammersmith <otto@redhat.com>

and that's the whole page bestie, you ate it 💅✨ this one's from Red Hat, dated March 13 2007, and it lives in section USERMOUNT(1) of the General Commands Manual. go forth and mount responsibly 🦋💖

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