I cp wma files off a win$ box to a DVD ... why can't I copy from DVD 2 a linux partit
 

I copied .wma files off a win$ box to a DVD ... why can't I copy those files from the DVD to a linux partition on my desktop?

I've tried cp, scp, mv - but not having any luck.

#cp -a files destination
cp: cannot stat `/media/tac/UDF Volume/*': No such file or directory

#scp -r files destination
input/output error

any suggestions?

Thx!

Is the DVD mounting? Can you browse to that directory and view the files?

What linux / distribution / kernel version are you running?

By default windows Vista/7/8 uses UDF >=2.5 which is support in kernel versions 2.6.26+

Please give us the exact command you tried to copy the files, I suspect that this is an issue with spaces in in the path.

Yep since the OP mentions /media/tac/UDF Volume/ its probably mounting ok and yours is the most logical reason...

Mint 14 on linux 3.5.0-30-generic x86_64
I dont think the DVD is mounting now - here is mtab and fstab


# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sdc5 during installation
UUID=1a0e1a91-6ccc-4e5b-8b9b-ddb2ee9d81d9 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /files was on /dev/sda13 during installation
UUID=e39849ef-cb05-48bb-b00c-15a5e62dde17 /files ext4 defaults 0 2
# /home was on /dev/sdc6 during installation
UUID=896f4c3e-65af-40e3-8122-e38256713a33 /home ext4 defaults 0 2
# /tmp was on /dev/sda12 during installation
UUID=a40756e8-f360-4c55-aecb-d27e10ebf273 /tmp ext4 defaults 0 2
# /usr was on /dev/sda7 during installation
UUID=e86f5c9d-03c4-4f36-81c0-af1154c54307 /usr ext4 defaults 0 2
# /var was on /dev/sda11 during installation
UUID=d40a9a18-f401-4928-afaa-abaea5bebb4a /var ext4 defaults 0 2
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=61f7143e-eaf9-45fa-b608-d7f291047717 none swap sw 0 0
# swap was on /dev/sda8 during installation
UUID=4ef70acf-5634-43cf-a651-5d52da8451f8 none swap sw 0 0

/dev/dvd /mnt/dvd auto ro,user,noauto,exec 0 0




/dev/mtab:
/dev/sdc5 / ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
none /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw 0 0
none /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw 0 0
none /sys/kernel/security securityfs rw 0 0
udev /dev devtmpfs rw,mode=0755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620 0 0
tmpfs /run tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755 0 0
none /run/lock tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880 0 0
none /run/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
none /run/user tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=104857600,mode=0755 0 0
/dev/sdc6 /home ext4 rw 0 0
/dev/sda11 /var ext4 rw 0 0
/dev/sda7 /usr ext4 rw 0 0
/dev/sda13 /files ext4 rw 0 0
/dev/sda12 /tmp ext4 rw 0 0
gvfsd-fuse /run/user/tac/gvfs fuse.gvfsd-fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,user=tac 0 0
/dev/sdd2 /media/tac/_ ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks2 0 0
/dev/sdd1 /media/tac/Seagate ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks2 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /media/tac/backups ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks2 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/tac/2f02e7f3-30f5-4ae8-a54d-2beafbfa71cf ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks2 0 0
/dev/sda10 /media/tac/a857839a-bd2b-4bee-aad3-0d3d9f249bf5 ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks2 0 0
/dev/sda9 /media/tac/_tmp ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks2 0 0
/dev/sdc1 /media/tac/4a235091-9d58-424d-aad3-2b7cad07fa54 ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks2 0 0
/dev/sdb2 /media/tac/_1 ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks2 0 0

Have you tried to manually mount the disc?

ls -l /mnt/dvd

returns


drwxrwxrwx 3 nobody nogroup 160 May 5 16:25 Moby Grape
drwxrwxrwx 3 nobody nogroup 144 May 5 16:25 Neil Young
drwxrwxrwx 3 nobody nogroup 164 May 5 16:25 Neil Young & Crazy Horse
drwxrwxrwx 2 nobody nogroup 40 Mar 4 12:23 New Folder
drwxrwxrwx 2 nobody nogroup 40 Mar 4 12:29 New Folder (2)
drwxrwxrwx 2 nobody nogroup 40 Mar 4 12:30 New Folder (3)
drwxrwxrwx 3 nobody nogroup 148 May 5 16:25 Paul McCartney & Wings
drwxrwxrwx 3 nobody nogroup 156 May 5 16:25 Pink Floyd
drwxrwxrwx 2 nobody nogroup 1072 May 5 16:26 Playlists
drwxrwxrwx 3 nobody nogroup 164 May 5 16:26 Pretenders
drwxrwxrwx 3 nobody nogroup 156 May 5 16:26 Renaissance
drwxrwxrwx 3 nobody nogroup 140 May 5 16:26 Richard Burmer
drwxrwxrwx 4 nobody nogroup 240 May 5 16:26 Rick Nelson

I want to copy all of the directories and their contents to files/russ on my pc

Well, then try it with This should do the job.

In the future please use code-tags (see my signature) to post code or output of commands, this makes your posts much more readable.

That worked. Thank you very much!

I will review your signature and links.