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Welcome to the udiskie wiki!

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Overview

udiskie is a UDisks front-end that allows to manage removeable media such as CDs or flash drives from userspace. Its features include:

• automount removable media when inserted
• notifications (on insertion, mount, unmount, …)
• GTK tray icon to manage all available devices
• command line tools for manual un-/mounting
• support for LUKS encrypted devices
• support for unlocking with keyfiles (requires udisks 2.6.4)
• support for loop devices (mounting iso archives, requires UDisks2)
• password caching
• works with either udisks1 or udisks2
• an extensible code base (python)
• a maintainer who is open for suggestions;)

All features can be indidually enabled or disabled (yes, you can submit unmaintainable code and make me salty!)

Documentation

• Usage
• Installation
• Troubleshooting
• FAQ

Project pages

The…

• Wiki contains installation instructions and additional information.
• Man page describes the command line options
• Source Code is hosted on github.
• Latest Release is available for download on PyPI.
• Issue Tracker is the right place to report any issues you encounter, ask general questions or suggest new features.