mount blank CD's? [solved]

viniosity · 2005-05-06 18:58:40

Is it possible to mount blank CD's in linux? In OS X when you put a blank CD in your computer it puts it on the desktop. You can then drag files to it and, when you eject the disk, you are prompted to burn.

I stuck a blank CD into my CDRW but I am getting an error:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdroms/cdrom1,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

Is that normal? What's the proper method to use a CDRW? Here is my fstab:

# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
#
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults 0 0

/dev/cdroms/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrw iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/dvd udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/floppy/0 /mnt/fl vfat user,noauto 0 0

/dev/discs/disc0/part2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/discs/disc0/part3 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/discs/disc0/part1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
#/dev/discs/disc0/part2 swap swap defaults 0 0
#/dev/discs/disc0/part3 / ext3 defaults 0 1
#/dev/discs/disc0/part1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 1

phrakture · 2005-05-06 19:01:34

you can't mount a blank CD - that goes against what "mount" does - it attaches a filesystem to a location. A blank CD has no filesystem.

If you want to burn CDs, I suggest you check out k3b.

You cannot just "cp" files to the mounted cd - just because Mac OSX (or Windows XP) does that, it doesn't mean the same thing works in linux.

viniosity · 2005-05-06 20:32:03

K3B worked as root but I can't seem to launch it as a regular user. Typing k3b in a terminal gives me a command not-found as a regular user.

But the CD got burned which is awesome. I thought there was a gnome package that was supposed to work as well as k3b but graveman and the nautilus burner didn't do the job (and I don't think it's a permissions issue since I have user in my fstab).

phrakture · 2005-05-06 21:53:24

k3b is pretty much de-facto right now for burning...

about permissions, is your user in the "optical" group? if not, add them and try k3b again

i3839 · 2005-05-06 22:37:29

Perhaps KDE or Gnome can do that too, now or next year... (if they don't even do such thing, then what do they??)

viniosity · 2005-05-07 02:34:36

phrakture wrote:

k3b is pretty much de-facto right now for burning...
about permissions, is your user in the "optical" group? if not, add them and try k3b again

Spot on.. my user was not in the optical group. Thanks for the help!

scarecrow · 2005-05-07 07:17:19

You might also like to create a "burning" group which will prevent some kernel related annoyances when burning, and set your permissions via "kcmshell k3bsetup2" as root.

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#1 2005-05-06 18:58:40

mount blank CD's? [solved]

#2 2005-05-06 19:01:34

Re: mount blank CD's? [solved]

#3 2005-05-06 20:32:03

Re: mount blank CD's? [solved]

#4 2005-05-06 21:53:24

Re: mount blank CD's? [solved]

#5 2005-05-06 22:37:29

Re: mount blank CD's? [solved]

#6 2005-05-07 02:34:36

Re: mount blank CD's? [solved]

#7 2005-05-07 07:17:19

Re: mount blank CD's? [solved]

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