Can't see hidden files burned with Windows

KTLiberty · 08-11-2004, 10:06 AM

Hey,
I have one crazy problem: I was looking through my old CD R's I burned with windows a while ago and realized, that I can't see hidden Files under Fedora Core 2. I can't see it in the Terminal, nor in the File browser.

Has anybody an idea what I can do?

Thanks

KTL

SciYro · 08-11-2004, 12:50 PM

ummm.. i never known windows's "hidden" files to be that well hidden ..

you sure you typed "ls -a /where/that/cused/window/files/are/on/this/cursed/cdr/??? "

KTLiberty · 08-16-2004, 08:32 AM

yeah, I tried it, but it shows me nothing.

Has anybody an idea, what I can do?

Thanks

KTL

prdallan · 08-30-2004, 08:06 AM

Try mounting the cd-rom with the "-o unhide" option. As root, type:

mount -t iso9660 -o unhide /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

It should solve your problem. Please give us some feedback, ok?

Regards!

Paulo

KTLiberty · 09-06-2004, 06:57 AM

It didn't work:

Quote:

# mount -t iso9660 -o unhide /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: /dev/cdrom already mounted or /mnt/cdrom busy mount: according to mtab, /dev/hdc is already mounted on /mnt/cdrom

Has anybody an idea?

Thanks

KTL

JZL240I-U · 09-06-2004, 07:09 AM

Code:

cdrecord -scanbus

shows what?

KTLiberty · 09-06-2004, 08:11 AM

Quote:

cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a27-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg Schi lling
Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support
Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to <warly@mandrakesoft.com>.
Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in this versio n.
scsidev: 'ATA'
devname: 'ATA'
scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2
Warning: Using badly designed ATAPI via /dev/hd* interface.
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.27
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (schily - Red Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.80-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c 1.80 04/03/08 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling').
scsibus1:
1,0,0 100) 'TOSHIBA ' 'DVD-ROM SD-R2102' '1916' Removable CD-ROM
1,1,0 101) *
1,2,0 102) *
1,3,0 103) *
1,4,0 104) *
1,5,0 105) *
1,6,0 106) *
1,7,0 107) *

Does this help in anyway?

Thanks

KTL

JZL240I-U · 09-06-2004, 08:31 AM

Mhm, well, your device is detected (Toshiba, okay) and on secondary master of the IDE-bus, furthermore mtab says it is mounted. So, umount it first, then try the suggestion with the "unhide"-option.

Maybe you can use also

Code:

mount -t iso9660 -o remount,unhide /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

though I am not sure concerning the syntax with the comma (man mount

)...

KTLiberty · 09-06-2004, 10:48 AM

hm... I tried

Code:

# mount -t iso9660 -o remount,unhide /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

but nothing happened and I still can't see the hidden files

Thanks

KTL

JZL240I-U · 09-07-2004, 05:39 AM

Can you see the "normal" files or don't you see nothing at all?

KTLiberty · 09-07-2004, 08:49 AM

yeah, I can see normal Files without any problems. The only problems are the hidden files.

Thanks

KTL

JZL240I-U · 09-07-2004, 08:53 AM

. I'm at a loss here. As a long shot try this: start K3b (burning program of KDE) and look whether you can see the files there; else I'm fresh out of ideas...

michaelk · 09-07-2004, 10:30 AM

How did you create the windows CD? Could this be a CD created with Nero InCD or Roxio DirectCD? If so this uses the UDF filesystem and not ISO9660. If mounted using ISO9660 then you might see a couple of files.

homey · 09-07-2004, 11:23 AM

I have some cdroms which I burned with Nero many moons ago. There is a folder which I made hidden on purpose.
When I go to view the cdrom in linux, that folder stays hidden until I do this.....

Unmount the cdrom, then edit the /etc/fstab file to include the unhide option for that cdrom device.
On my box, it looks like this.

Code:

/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              udf,iso9660 noauto,unhide,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0

Then I remount the cdrom device ( mount /mnt/cdrom ) and the hidden folder shows up.

KTLiberty · 09-07-2004, 12:57 PM

hey, it's nearly perfect.

when I'm logged in with gnome it's no problem to see now the hidden files, but I normaly use KDE and konqueror showes nothing and comes up with error messages: "mount: /dev/cdrom already mounted or /mnt/cdrom busy
Please check that the disk is entered correctly."

greetings

KTL