---
name: "devmon"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "udevil"
version: "0.4.4-4"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/devmon"
---

# devmon(1)

Automounts and unmounts optical and removable drives

## NAME

devmon - Automounts and unmounts optical and removable drives

## SYNOPSIS

**devmon \[AUTOMOUNT-OPTIONS\] # Run as daemon to automount** **devmon \[MOUNT-OPTIONS\] # Or run as client to manually un/mount**

## DESCRIPTION

**devmon** - Automounts and unmounts optical and removable drives

## USAGE

- **AUTOMOUNT-OPTIONS: (these can be used only in daemon mode)**

  **--exec-on-device DEVICE COMMAND** Execute COMMAND after mounting DEVICE **--exec-on-label LABEL COMMAND** Execute COMMAND after mounting LABEL **--exec-on-video COMMAND** **Execute COMMAND after video DVD mount** **--exec-on-audio COMMAND** Execute COMMAND after audio CD insertion **--exec-on-disc COMMAND** Execute COMMAND after data CD/DVD mount **--exec-on-drive COMMAND** Execute COMMAND after drive mount **--exec-on-unmount COMMAND** Execute COMMAND after unmount **--exec-on-remove COMMAND** Execute COMMAND after drive removal **Where the following in COMMAND will be replaced with:** **%d mount point directory (eg /media/cd)** **%f device name (eg /dev/sdd1)** **%l label of mounted volume** **Multiple --exec-on-XXX options may be used to execute multiple commands.** **Other exec-on-XXX commands are ignored if exec-on-device or -label executed.** **--mount-options OPTIONS** Default: noexec,nosuid,nodev,noatime **--info-on-mount** Show mounted drive info in a popup dialog **--no-mount** Don't mount anything, just exec (disables --exec-on-video) **--no-unmount** Don't unmount all removable drives on exit

- **MOUNT-OPTIONS: (these can be used only in client mode)**

  **--unmount-removable, -r** Sync and unmount all removable drives and show pop-up dialog (spacefm or zenity required) **--unmount-recent, -c** Unmount most recently mounted removable drive **--unmount-optical, -o** Unmount all optical drives (error pop-up only) **--unmount-all, -u** Same as --unmount-removable, --unmount-optical **--unmount DIR\|DEVICE** Unmount DEVICE or mount point DIR **--eject DIR\|DEVICE** Unmount and eject DEVICE or mount point DIR **--mount-all, -a** Mount all removable and optical drives **--mount DEVICE** Mount DEVICE **--mount-options, --mount-fstype, --eject-options OPTIONS** These options will be passed to mount or eject

- **--ignore-device DEVICE**

  Ignore DEVICE (eg /dev/sdd1) **--ignore-label LABEL** Ignore volume with LABEL **--sync, -s** Add sync mount option for ext2-4 ntfs ufs, or flush for fat & vfat (slower writing but safer) **--internal** Also attempt to un/mount internal system drives (this is mostly a fix for esata issues) **--no-gui, -g** Do not show spacefm/zenity pop-up dialogs

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Mateusz Łukasik \<mati75@linuxmint.pl\>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).