vuckale / mounted-paritions-control

Perl script for unmouting/powering-off media/usb drives

mounted-partitions-control.pl

Description

Perl script for unmouting/powering-off media/usb drives

Dependencies

perl, udisksctl

Debian based distros:

sudo apt-get install perl udisks

Arch based distros:

The perl package for Perl 5 is installed as part of the base group during Arch Linux installation. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Perl#Installation

sudo pacman -S udisks

Usage:

perl mounted-partitions-control.pl

After running this command you will be prompted to type ID of the drive you wish to unmount/power-off. IDs will be marked on STDOUT. After you type ID and press ENTER this script will call udisksctl command with your subshell and attempt to unmount and power-off selected drive.