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need help mounting a rom usb drive

I have a read-only usb drive that contains a software key, it's listed as sr0:

Code:

$ lsblk

NAME          MAJ:MIN RM  SIZE RO TYPE  MOUNTPOINTS

sda            8:0    0 223.6G  0 disk  

├─sda1          8:1    0  256M  0 part  /media/hananelroe/305955D3775E8F4B

├─sda2          8:2    0    2G  0 part  

└─sda3          8:3    0 221.3G  0 part  /mnt/lfs

sr0            11:0    1  15.2G  0 rom  

nvme0n1      259:0    0 476.9G  0 disk  

├─nvme0n1p1  259:1    0  498M  0 part  /boot/efi

├─nvme0n1p2  259:2    0    4G  0 part  /recovery

├─nvme0n1p3  259:3    0 468.4G  0 part  /

└─nvme0n1p4  259:4    0    4G  0 part  

  └─cryptswap 253:0    0    4G  0 crypt [SWAP]

when I try to:

Code:

sudo mount /dev/sr0 Desktop/respona/

it responds with:

Code:

mount: /home/hananelroe/Desktop/respona: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sr0, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.

does anyone know what can I do to mount it?

Try finding out what the file system is and specifying that with mount -t

Quote:

Originally Posted by TenTenths (Post 6388929)

Try finding out what the file system is and specifying that with mount -t

I looked at it on a windows machine and it told me the USB has CDFS file system. but when I try to mount with it it says:

Code:

mount: /home/hananelroe/Desktop/respona: unknown filesystem type 'CDFS'.

On your windows machine does it show up as a USB drive or does it show up as a CD-ROM? Can you copy the files you need from it via Windows?

SOLUTION:

after some googling, I found this command:

Code:

sudo mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/sr0 /media/data/cd

it did the job