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dockland

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2015-06-06

Posts: 861

[SOLVED] Add DVD RW / CD RW to fstab

Never used a CD or DVD (RW) with Linux, and can't find any tutorials in wiki how to properly add, mount and use my internal DVD RW / CDRW.

I see the option 'ro' on some posts here on the forums, but think that's according to read only CD's and DVD's

So it's kind of embarrassing not to know how to add, mount and use my drive.

The drive itself is detected with lsblk (i have a DVD movie in the drive as i write this)

sr0          11:0    1   6.2G  0 rom 

I don't really know how to mount it, so i can be able to use it to play audio, DVD movies and use it to write CD's and DVD's

Last edited by dockland (2018-07-28 18:55:26)

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teckk

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Registered: 2013-02-21

Posts: 590

Re: [SOLVED] Add DVD RW / CD RW to fstab

i have a DVD movie in the drive as i write this

You play DVD movies
example:

mplayer dvd://1

That assumes that you want the first title, or

mplayer dvdnav://

To get the DVD menu. mpv doesn't have that any more. Also look at vlc.

I don't really know how to mount it

mount /dev/sr0 /some/where

But that's for a data DVD. Won't due you much good on a video DVD. Although you can see the tree structure and the .vob files if you mount it.

If it's a data DVD, mount it to some empty directory and do what you want. You can't write to optical media like that though. Look at growisofs, genisoimage, k3b etc.

Anyway, looks like it is /dev/sr0

I don't have anything in /etc/fstab for optical drive.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Optical_Disc_Drive

dockland

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2015-06-06

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Re: [SOLVED] Add DVD RW / CD RW to fstab

Ok, thank you.
I don't really get it. I try to make a directory and mount it, but it fails.

$ sudo mount /dev/sr0 /mnt/dvdrw
mount: /mnt/dvdrw: mount point does not exist.

Is there a way of automating regardless of what filesystem my drive use? Like some auto detect or likewise? Or am i required to manually create a directory and mount it whenever i want/need to use the drive?

Edit: Well it actually mounted fine when i did what you wrote, and i'm able to watch the movie in Parole. I'll try to use some DVD RW software and see if it works as well.

Last edited by dockland (2018-07-28 18:25:48)

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teckk

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Registered: 2013-02-21

Posts: 590

Re: [SOLVED] Add DVD RW / CD RW to fstab

Is there a way of automating regardless of what filesystem my drive use?

A DVD uses ISO 9660, you can make one UDF If you want.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udisks
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udev#Udisks
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Th … tomounting

dockland

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2015-06-06

Posts: 861

Re: [SOLVED] Add DVD RW / CD RW to fstab

Oh, of course. Thank you. I'll mark this thread as solved.

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