A small Linux desktop removable media mounting daemon, that uses little memory. (~13x fewer memory used than udiskie on author's setup: from ~80 MiB to ~6 MiB)

Mount automatically your...:

• USB drive
• CD or DVD disk
• loop devices

• sdbus-c++ 2.1.0 or later
• spdlog 1.15.0 or later
• UDisks 2.10.0 or later
• xdg-open(1) (optional)
• argparse 3.1 or later (building only)

Available as udisken, udisken-bin (binary releases) or udisken-git (development branch).

paru -S udisken
# ...or...
yay -S udisken
# ...or...
aurwrapperx -S udisken

UDISKEN provides a systemd user service. You can enable it using:

systemctl --user enable udisken.service

You can also simply run the daemon like this:

udisken

UDISKEN takes a few command arguments.

Disabling notifications:

udisken --no-notify

Disabling log timestamp (useful for journal systems, journalctl):

udisken --no-log-timestamp

Enabling verbose mode:

udisken -d # or --verbose

UDISKEN also reads from some environment variables.

Disabling notifications:

UDISKEN_NO_NOTIFY=1 udisken

Disabling log timestamp (useful for journal systems, journalctl):

UDISKEN_NO_LOG_TIMESTAMP=1 udisken

Enabling verbose mode:

DEBUG=1 udisken

Other configuration, such as enabling or disabling automounting per drive, is best done in lower-level configuration files or tools, such as fstab(5).

If done so, this will allow UDISKEN and other programs to respect such settings.

To manually mount, unmount, or do something else, you should use udisksctl(1): it is simple enough to use and supports shell completion in Bash, Fish, and Zsh*; simply remember to add -b|--block-device, like this:

udisksctl mount -b /dev/sdXN

*Requires zsh-completions installed.

You will need to have the Meson build system installed in order to build UDISKEN.

Additionally, you will need the dependencies listed above. Some dependencies are optional, and you can choose to enable or disable the features that require them in meson.options.

You absolutely need to have sdbus-c++ installed, which provides the sdbus-c++-xml2cpp program required for this step.

Simply make sure that the option udisks_dbus_interface in the project root meson.build, points to the correct D-Bus interface XML file: this corresponds to the Meson option being yielded to, as mentioned in udisks-sdbus-c++'s README file. Alternatively, you can provide the udisks_dbus_interface option when running meson setup:

meson setup build -Dudisks_dbus_interface=/path/to/org.freedesktop.UDisks2.xml

The file's location may vary depending on your distribution.

• Usually, it is located in the /usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/ system directory.
• In the UDisks upstream repository, it is located at data/org.freedesktop.UDisks2.xml
• Alternatively, you may change the file location in the root project meson.build

For more information, see udisks-sdbus-c++.

git clone https://github.com/shkrazini/udisken
cd udisken
meson wrap update-db
meson setup build
meson compile -C build

Copyright © 2025-2026 Sofian-Hedi Krazini

Source and header files are licensed under the GNU General Public License Version 3.

This README is marked CC0 1.0 Universal.

UDISKEN Icon and UDISKEN Logo is based on Adwaita Icon Theme by the GNOME Project originally licensed under CC-BY-SA-3.0, modified and licensed under CC-BY-SA-4.0. UDISKEN Icon and UDISKEN Logo uses Inter, licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

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