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USERMOUNT

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
FILES
SEE ALSO
BUGS
AUTHOR

NAME

usermount - A graphical tool to mount, unmount and format filesystems.

SYNOPSIS

usermount [ options ]

userformat [ options ] device

DESCRIPTION

usermount is a graphical tool to allow users to easily manage removable media, such as floppy disks or zip disks. When the tool starts up, it scans /etc/fstab for all filesystems that have been configured to allow users to mount and unmount them. The filesystem can be mounted or unmounted by pressing the toggle button labeled Mount .

Also, if the user has the appropriate permissions for the device, the Format button will be active. This allows the user to format disks using fdformat and create a new filesystem of the type listed (using mkfs with the appropriate option). Naturally, the user will be prompted for confirmation before actually destroying data on the device.

Note that if a device is already mounted, the format button is inactive for all entries that share the same device.

When run as root, usermount displays all of the entries in /etc/fstab rather than just the ones with the user option.

Invoking userformat device allows formatting device , as if by selecting device in the userformat window, and by clicking the Format button.

OPTIONS

This program has no command line options of its own, but it does take the standard X program options like -display and such. See the X (1) man page for some of the common options.

FILES

/etc/fstab

The system file describing the mountable filesystems.

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.

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.

AUTHOR

Otto Hammersmith <otto@redhat.com>