[PLUG] Mount point of optical drive

John Jason Jordan johnxj at comcast.net
Thu Dec 26 20:18:44 UTC 2013


On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 12:10:43 -0800
"Tim Bruce - PLUG" <timb at tbruce.com> dijo:

>
>On Thu, December 26, 2013 11:59, John Jason Jordan wrote:
>> On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 11:41:19 -0800
>> Bill Barry <bill at billbarry.org> dijo:
>>
>>>On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 11:35 AM, John Jason Jordan
>>><johnxj at comcast.net>wrote:
>>
>>>> There is probably a command line incantation that will list mounted
>>>> devices, but I can't figure out what it is.
>>
>> That's what I tried first, but it does not show the CDROM, even
>> though Thunar sees the files on it:
>>
>> /dev/sdb1 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
>> proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
>> sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
>> none on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (rw)
>> none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
>> none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
>> none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
>> udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
>> devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
>> tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755)
>> none on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880)
>> none on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
>> none on /run/user type tmpfs
>> 	(rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=104857600,mode=0755)
>> none on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw)
>> /dev/sdb2 on /home type ext4<(rw,nosuid,nodev)
>> binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type
>> binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
>> rpc_pipefs on /run/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
>> systemd on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup
>> 	(rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,none,name=systemd)
>> nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw)
>> gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse
>> 	(rw,nosuid,nodev,user=jjj)
>> /dev/sdc on /media/jjj/Movies type ext4
>> 	(rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks2)
>>
>> In the above SDB1 is root, /home is on SDB2, and SDC is an external
>> USB drive. I don't see anything that looks like an optical drive.
>> Thunar's location bar says it is cdda://sr0, so I guess it
>> is /dev/sr0, but any attempt to mount /dev/sr0 manually from the
>> command line fails, e.g:
>>
>> j$ sudo mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/sr0 /cdrom
>> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sr0,
>>        missing codepage or helper program, or other error
>>        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>>        dmesg | tail  or so
>>
>> And dmesg | tail just gives the same errors as above.
>>
>> All I want to do is access files on the drive from the command line.
>> If only I could get the path correct!
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>
>cdda is a "Music" CD.  So you might want to check .gvfs directory in
>your local directory and see if it is in there.
>
>$ cd ~/.gvfs/

$ cd ~/.gvfs
bash: cd: /home/jjj/.gvfs: No such file or directory

:(

But thanks for telling me what cdda is. Indeed, when I put the CD in
the drive Xubuntu popped up Parole to play things on it. 



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