How to see where is my DVD mounted?

Paul Smith phhs80 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 15 19:21:37 UTC 2013


On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Judith Flo Gaya <jflo at imppc.org> wrote:
>>     >> >> How can one identify the mount point of a dvd media?
>>     >> >>
>>     >> >> I would like to use growisofs to burn F18 iso image.
>>     >> >>
>>     >> >> I am using F17 64.
>>     >> >
>>     >> >
>>     >> > If the disk is mounted, it'll probably be in:
>>     >> >
>>     >> > /run/media/<username>/<filesystem-label>
>>     >> >
>>     >> > Of course, a simple "mount" command would reveal where it is.
>>     >>
>>     >> Thanks, Rick. And the command to burn the iso image could be?
>>     >
>>     >
>>     > the brasero app works fine for me, ..
>>
>>     Thanks, Jack. I have used
>>
>>     iso2dvd Fedora-18-x86_64-DVD.iso
>>
>>     where iso2dvd is a the following script:
>>
>>     ------------------------------------
>>     #! /bin/sh
>>
>>     growisofs -dvd-compat -speed=4 -Z /dev/sr1="$1"
>>     eject
>>
>>     exit 0
>>     ------------------------------------
>>
>>     Unfortunately, it is not working:
>>
>>     $ iso2dvd Fedora-18-x86_64-DVD.iso
>>     *:-( "/dev/dvd=Fedora-18-x86_64-**DVD.iso": unexpected errno:No
>>     such file*
>>
>>     or directory
>>     $
>>
>> what if you do absolute path to file? eg,
>> iso2dvd /home/paul/downloads/Fedora-18-x86_64-DVD.iso
>>
>> ??
>>
>>     Paul
>>
> I use wodim, it just takes care of "everything"
> wodim Fedora-18-x86_64-DVD.iso

Thanks, Judith. Unfortunately, it did not work with wodim.

By chance, it worked by given

/dev/sr1

to the growisofs command. How could one determine that the media was placed at

/dev/sr1

?

Paul


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