climount

climount

A Linux command line utility that perfoms mount operations on disk partitions and removable media, inspired by bashmount.

Using climount you can mount/unmount regular partitions/volumes, or open/close encrypted partitions and then mount the mapped devices. Mountpoints can be set manually or automatically.

Usage

climount acts as a frontend for traditional unix-style filesystem commands (mount, umount, etc) and other commands that require elevated privileges, so it must be run with either sudo or doas, or, if neither of those are installed, as root (preferably using su).

Current Limitations:

BTRFS subvolume operations are not supported, but may be added at a later date.

LUKS is the only supported encryption protocol; others may work but are completely untested

Dependencies

Hard dependencies are util-linux and coreutils* (installed by default by most distros).

As mentioned above, either sudo or doas, while not strictly a hard dependency, is strongly recommended.

Other optional dependencies are cryptsetup (Only needed for encrypted devices) and lvm2 (Only needed for lvm devices)

*Compatibility with busybox coreutils is largely untested; it may work fine but YMMV.

Installation

Statically-linked binaries that should work with any distro are available in Releases. Just place the binary into your $PATH.

For Debian-based distros there are .deb packages available, also in Releases. I also package a Gentoo version in my overlay.

Building from source

Requirements

go is required to build. If you use the included build script all build operations will take place in /tmp and go will download an up-to-date version of itself to use temporarily during the build.

Otherwise, climount depends on term, which requires go 1.25.0 or newer.

Build instructions

Clone or download/extract the source code and $ cd climount.

To build:

$ ./build.sh

To install:

# ./install.sh

To uninstall:

# ./uninstall.sh