dvd drive mount point

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Hi:

I know this question has properly been asked many times, but I’ve just installed imgburn under wine and says that no drives where detected.

I know how to go about fixing it by adding manually the mount point of my dvd drive into winecfg as it isn’t picked up automatically, But I cannot figure out what the mount point under opensuse would be I’ve tried \media\cdrom0 with no effect so my question is this is there I command in konsole that will list my mount devices and mount points?

Many thanks.

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When it is mounted by your DE through HAL it will be /media/cdrom, /media/cdrom -1, etc. See SDB:Basics of partitions, filesystems, mount points - openSUSE for more details.

And of course the *mount *command shows what is mounted and where and how (see man mount).

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I think the mount point is actually /dev/dvd which points to sr0. When HAL detects the dvd, it will actually appear at /media/sr0.

But I may have misunderstood the actual process.

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Thanks for all of the help, but after a bit more nosing around, I found it wasn’t a problem with openSUSE but a problem with input/output interface settings of imgburn.

Now everything is working a treat, absolutely love openSUSE:)

Thanks again for the help, it was much appreciated.

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Sorry John, but you are mixing things. Please read the link I gave for the details about the nomenclature.

What is in /dev/… is not the mount point, it is the device special file. These are generated by udev. For CD/DVD readers/writer, these are normaly /dev/sr0, etc. For USB sticks they are generated dynamicaly by udevd when a device of a corresponding class is connected and are then like /dev/sdf1, etc.

The mount point can be everywhere in your directory tree, but HAL works only inside /media, where it generates mount points (directories) which names that depend on the class of the device, something it gets from the USB parameters of the device. USB sticks are of class ‘disk’, so HAL uses /media/disk as mountpoint. (Big and usefull exception is when HAL finds a volume label on the device, it then uses that volume label). Unless this is allready in use, in which case it adds -1, etc. So it depends if and how much of thoses devices are allready active at the moment you insert an new one if it will be mounted on /mdeia/disk, /media/disk-1, etc. CDs and DVDs are of class cdrom and dvd, so HAL mounts them on /media/cdrom, /media/cdrom-1, … or /media/dvd, /media/dvd-1, …

Now I have openSUSE 10.3 and KDE 3.5. When HAL signals KDE it opens a window asking you what to do. When you say “open in a new window”, Konqueror will be started and the address field will have something like:

system:/media/sdf1

for an USB stick or /media/sr0 for a CD/DVD.
This seems to be a a special notation used by the system: protocol of Konqueror (and others?). Because /media/sdf1 is NOT something that exists in your directory tree and it is thus NOT a mount point.

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Thanks for the clarification