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Redsandro
Asked: 2018-10-06 20:11:33 +0800 CST

Create custom mount/unmount entry for nemo/nautilus "devices"

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sshfs mounts are shown under "devices" in Nemo and Nautilus, together with this eject/unmount button.

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The eject/unmount button never works. When I go to the terminal and sshfs something into my home dir (for which I needn't sudo), the unmount button still has "permission denied". This has been the same for all Ubuntu versions since 16.04.

When I manually unmount the sshfs mount, the entire device entry disappears from the list, so I cannot re-mount it just by clicking on it.

Is there a way to manually add a "device", run a custom mount script when I click on it, and run a custom unmount script when I click on the eject/unmount button?

nautilus mount devices sshfs nemo

2 Answers

  1. SSHfs unmount problem is known (see bug 254171 for Nautilus and bug 1763033 for Caja).

    You can mount some network shares (SSH, FTP, SMB/CIFS) with help of GVFS by creating Bookmarks for them (something like smb://1.1.1.1/public_share). Such mounts will not require root/superuser access. From terminal you can access their files in /run/user/1000/gvfs/smb-share:server=localhost,share=public_share (or similar).

    For custom scripts you can try to use Nautilus Action (or FileManager Actions). See this Q&A for details.

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  2. An approach that circumvents the bug mentionned in the answer of NOrbert would be to declare the mount in /etc/fstab. Include your sshfs mount in /etc/fstab, and add the options noauto and users.

    • noauto causes the mount not to be carried out during the execution of fstab. Only the information needed for the mount is being declared to the system.
    • users declares that the mount can be performed by any user of the system. Use the option user=<uid> if you want to allow the mount only to a specific user.

    To have the mounts appear in nautilus, you need to define the mount point under the /media folder or within your home folder.

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