Thunar mounting/unmounting NTFS drive in the side pane.

Hey ,
Could someone help me to set up Thunar to be able to mount/unmount & browse my NFTS drive "/dev/sda1" "/mnt/HDD" in the side pane?
Like this:
I already have a link to it in the side pane:
But...
I'd prefer to set it up properly, I've searched google and the bbs but couldn't find any info's on this.
Thanks

terminal:
*diskutil unmount /Volumes/"diskname"*
apple script:
tell application "Finder"
eject disk "diskname"
end tell
Keep the quotation marks in the above.
Mounting a disk is trickier because you need to know the mountpoint.
First, when the disk is mounted enter the following terminal command:
df
this will list all mounted devices.
locate the line with your disk and read off the first column. It should look something like
/dev/disk2s2
Unmount the disk. To mount it run
*diskutil mount /dev/disk2s2*

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