How to see where is my DVD mounted?

[Paul Smith]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:41 PM, Rick Stevens <ricks at alldigital.com> wrote:
>> to the growisofs command. How could one determine that the media was
>> placed at
>>
>> /dev/sr1
>
>
> Your CD/DVD drive will appear as /dev/sr[some-number]. Some systems have two
> drives, so they'll be /dev/sr0 and /dev/sr1. Depending on
> how your machine was installed, your first drive may be /dev/sr1.
> I've not sorted out why exactly, but I've seen it.
>
> Usually the udev rules also set up appropriate symlinks in /dev to
> point at the devices. For example, /dev/cdrom will generally point to
> the appropriate device:
>
>         root at prophead ~]# ls -l /dev/cdrom
>         lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jan 15 11:23 /dev/cdrom -> sr0
>
> It should also create a /dev/dvd symlink which will also point at the
> correct device, but none of my F17 systems seem to set up /dev/dvd*
> links anymore (boo!).
>
> Also note that if you have two drives, you'll still have some questions
> as to which drive is what. The system will have /dev/sr0 and /dev/sr1,
> and quite possibly symlinks like /dev/cdrom (pointed at /dev/sr0) and
> /dev/cdrom1 (pointed at /dev/sr1).
>
> After installing blank media, you can look at /var/log/messages or the
> output of dmesg to see which drive saw the new media.
>
> My recommendation is to feed "/dev/cdrom=/path/to/iso/image" to
> growisofs and see if that'll get you anywhere or stick with brasero
> to burn your disks.
>
> Yes, it's confusing if you've not dealt with it before.


Thanks, Rick, for your very useful clarification!

Paul