i think i just mounted my cdroms, so that i could acces data in them.. a very basic thing that is so nice to be able to do. but i'm not sure if i did it correctly. their in /dev, but they show up as files of 0 bytes. their media has a lot more than 0 bytes, and i can't access it, either.

i'm using nautilus in redhat 8.0

how do i tell if my cdrom is mounted correctly? and if it is, how do i access it's data?



thx!

Run the command "mount" at command prompt. It will show you all the mounted devices and where the are mounted.

man, i have no idea what i just got from running the mount command.... seriously, yer talkin' to a noob of the clan of noob from noobieville usa. i'm clueless, so clueless that all these online manuals don't help, they assume i know a little, but i don't. i have no idea what the information i got from running mount means. NO idea....

Well i was exactly like you, you just have to explore the world of linux...have a search on google.com/linux...

and also to get the most out of your questions..try provide as much information as you can...like for example when you entered the type command..copy + paste it hear so someone can explain to you what everything means..

Good luck my friend, welcome to the world of Linux!

Garry

From your question, you may have mounted the device, but are trying to access the information incorrectly.

You need to go to the mount point, rather than the device itself. During mount:
mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
You are telling mount to place the data from /dev/cdrom into a directory /mnt/cdrom to be accessible to read.

So you would need to read that from the mount point, which is a directory. /dev is all your devices, you shouldn't mount anything there.

So, to check on your info, go to /mnt/cdrom rather.

Cool

And as far as the info that typing mount gives you...

mount shows you a copy of your mtab, now tuck that info away for now as it's virtually useless.

When devices get mounted, they get mounted by their device name (/dev/cdrom; /dev/hda and so on) and with a filesystem (vfat, iso9660, ext3 and so on) to a mount point (/mnt/cdrom, /mnt/winbloze, /mnt/floppy and so on) and this information is provided by typing mount.

If you manually mounted a partition, you would be able to find out where and with what permissions with mount.

Same with your cdrom, if you correctly mounted it, it will show you where, and how to access it. Look for the mount point, recognize /dev as the device, and look for where it went to.

Cool