Cannot mount blank CD

der_11 · 08-25-2007, 03:41 PM

Okay I wanted to burn a CD in Slack 12.0 and normally I'm able to mount CD/DVD's with stuff on them and everything works fine. Now I tried to mount a blank CD for burning in k3b.

When I wanted to mount I got this error:

Code:

bash-3.1$ mount /dev/cdrom
mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified

Although the icon for the blank CD appears on my desktop, so it is detected I guess. So whats going on here?

Here's my fstab if it helps:

Code:

/dev/sda2        swap             swap        defaults         		0   0
/dev/sda3        /                ext2        defaults         		1   1
/dev/sda1        /boot            ext2        defaults         		1   2
/dev/sda4        /home            ext2        defaults         		1   2
/dev/sdb1	 /mnt/usb	  auto	      noauto,owner,users,rw	0   0
/dev/cdrom       /mnt/cdrom       auto        noauto,owner,users,ro  	0   0
/dev/dvd         /mnt/dvd         auto        noauto,owner,users,ro  	0   0
/dev/fd0         /mnt/floppy      auto        noauto,owner,users     	0   0
devpts           /dev/pts         devpts      gid=5,mode=620   		0   0
proc             /proc            proc        defaults         		0   0

jong357 · 08-25-2007, 03:45 PM

You don't have to mount a blank CD before burning and indeed you can't mount a blank CD. There is no existing filesystem on it so there is no way to mount it...

A CD is just like a hard drive in that aspect. No file system, no mount.

der_11 · 08-25-2007, 04:56 PM

Alright thanks, I did not know that. Anyways turns out k3b was not configured properly which caused me to think this was the problem.