Ubuntu – Where to find actual commands for Nautilus “open with” options

command linemountnautilus

Actually I want to mount an ISO image (command line) without creating and specifying paths for mount command (just to point to ISO and have it mounted).
So if "Disk Image Mounter" is a script – where is it?
And in general where to find actual commands for "open with" options in Nautilus right click menu?

Ubuntu 14.04

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For every command there's a corresponding .desktop file in /usr/share/applications/ or $HOME/.local/share/applications/. The command is in the line starting with ´Exec=`.

For "Disk Image Mounter it's the file /usr/share/applications/gnome-disk-image-mounter.desktop. The ´Exec` line is

Exec=gnome-disk-image-mounter %U

so the command is

gnome-disk-image-mounter %U

where %U gets replace by a list of URLs for the files you have selected, for example

gnome-disk-image-mounter file:///tmp/myimage.iso file file:///tmp/other.iso

See the Freedesktop Desktop Entry Specification for more about .desktop files.

See the gnome-disk-image-mounter manpage for more about gnome-disk-image-mounter.

The result?

Your /dev/sda2 will be mounted in the /media/label, where label refers to the name of label of the partition. For example, my /dev/sda2 is labeled as Main, and when i do the command, "/dev/sda2" will be mounted on /media/Main.

How do i know, My Drive "Drivename"'s `sdaX` number ?

You can execute sudo blkid command in a terminal to know, which sdaX you have to input.

Example: My example run returns this:

anwar@edubuntu-lenovo:~$ sudo blkid
/dev/sda1: UUID="01CD4993623F05D0" TYPE="ntfs" 
/dev/sda2: LABEL="Main" UUID="A80C1BD70C1B9F7E" TYPE="ntfs" 
/dev/sda3: LABEL="Work" UUID="01CCB271A80A07E0" TYPE="ntfs" 
/dev/sda5: LABEL="Free" UUID="DE53-CB6B" TYPE="vfat" 
/dev/sda6: UUID="364126ac-01c9-4dd2-ab19-eecc733a9640" TYPE="ext4" 
/dev/sda7: UUID="b1537dfc-e918-4fea-9a99-44a034e57429" TYPE="swap" 
/dev/sda8: UUID="01CD49906DD38770" TYPE="ntfs" 
/dev/sda9: LABEL="Precise-New" UUID="7c934266-dfcb-45de-879b-e3ceafcd0862" TYPE="ext4"

So i know that, if I wanted to mount "Work", I have to use sda3.

If the partition has no label:

If your partition has no label, it will be mounted in /media/UUID, where UUID refers to the UUID of the partition.
For example: If i mount my /dev/sda8, which does not have a Label, it will be mounted in /media/01CD49906DD38770 Folder.

Hope this will help.

Ubuntu – find the mount point for SMB shares in 13.04

In 13.04, gvfs user-mounts are moved to the /run filesystem

/run/user/<username>/gvfs

see Why do my gvfs mounts not show up under ~/.gvfs or /run/user/<login>/gvfs?

[not flagged as duplicate because the answers there are unclear]

If you want to keep the old links / scripts etc., just do

rmdir ~/.gvfs/
ln -s /run/user/<username>/gvfs ~/.gvfs

Update: gvfs has been deprecated, use 'gio mount' instead. Now smb mounts are located on $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/gvfs.

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Ubuntu – How to mount a ntfs disk in the text mode(from command line)

The result?

How do i know, My Drive "Drivename"'s sdaX number ?

If the partition has no label:

Ubuntu – find the mount point for SMB shares in 13.04

Related Question

How do i know, My Drive "Drivename"'s `sdaX` number ?