I'm writing a backup script in which I need to mount a drive in the media bay of my laptop.

I know that I can get the job done by messing with fstab and the mount command. Perhaps that's the easiest way. Anyway, I'm interested in the following:

1. Initially the media bay drive is unmounted.




2. I click on the drive in the side-panel in a nautilus window and the drive is mounted.




3. I can access it at /media/baydrive.

My question:

Is there an easy way of performing step 2 from the command line? I.e., mount the drive to /media/<device name> without messing with fstab.