Is there a user friendly way of mounting an external drive that was ejected?

Question

I have a very noisy external 500 GB drive which I use mostly for synchronizing local files.

In OS X I used to eject the drive, and mount it later when I need it with the Disk Utility.

Is there a GUI for doing so in Ubuntu?

Answer 1

Try gparted:

sudo apt-get install gparted

Answer 2

The other question is about "auto mount" features. My question was specifically about the ability to mount a drive that I ejected myself in the same session, via GUI.

This can be done in the Disks program, as Mitch pointed out in the comments:

• Click on the drive, and look for the little square icon below the graph with the partitions.
• When the device is mounted, clicking this icon will unmount the drive ("stop").
• When the device is not mounted, the icon will show a "play" arrow instead (similar to a music player). Clicking the "play" button will mount the drive.

I feel this question is relevant, because in Windows 7 I never found a way to do this. If I ejected my (very noisy) Seagate USB hardrive, I would be unable to mount it again short of restarting Windows or pulling and plugging the cable again.