[PLUG] Mount point of optical drive

2013-12-26 Thread John Jason Jordan
I wish to access files stored on CDs. I place the CD in the drive and close the door, and Xubuntu 13.10 automatically mounts it. The files are visible in Thunar. But I want to access the files from the command line. I can't figure out what the mount point is. There is a folder /cdrom, but it is

Re: [PLUG] Mount point of optical drive

2013-12-26 Thread Bill Barry
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 11:35 AM, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.netwrote: There is probably a command line incantation that will list mounted devices, but I can't figure out what it is. That command is mount. No options, just plain mount. ___

Re: [PLUG] Mount point of optical drive

2013-12-26 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 11:41:19 -0800 Bill Barry b...@billbarry.org dijo: On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 11:35 AM, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.netwrote: There is probably a command line incantation that will list mounted devices, but I can't figure out what it is. That's what I tried first, but it

Re: [PLUG] Mount point of optical drive

2013-12-26 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 11:35:30AM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: I wish to access files stored on CDs. I place the CD in the drive and close the door, and Xubuntu 13.10 automatically mounts it. The files are visible in Thunar. But I want to access the files from the command line. I can't

Re: [PLUG] Mount point of optical drive

2013-12-26 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 26 Dec 2013, John Jason Jordan wrote: That's what I tried first, but it does not show the CDROM, even though Thunar sees the files on it: John, Do you have a mount point defined in /etc/fstab for your optical drive? On this host it's: /dev/cdrw/mnt/cdrom auto

Re: [PLUG] Mount point of optical drive

2013-12-26 Thread Tim Bruce - PLUG
On Thu, December 26, 2013 11:59, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 11:41:19 -0800 Bill Barry b...@billbarry.org dijo: On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 11:35 AM, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.netwrote: There is probably a command line incantation that will list mounted devices, but I

Re: [PLUG] Mount point of optical drive

2013-12-26 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I think you're suffering from the gvfsd-fuse. Check out that line and see if your CDROM is there. \\||/ Rod -- On 12/26/2013 11:59 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 11:41:19 -0800 Bill Barryb...@billbarry.org dijo: On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 11:35 AM, John Jason Jordan

Re: [PLUG] Mount point of optical drive

2013-12-26 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 12:10:43 -0800 Tim Bruce - PLUG t...@tbruce.com dijo: On Thu, December 26, 2013 11:59, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 11:41:19 -0800 Bill Barry b...@billbarry.org dijo: On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 11:35 AM, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.netwrote: There is

Re: [PLUG] Mount point of optical drive

2013-12-26 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 12:04:23 -0800 Michael Rasmussen mich...@jamhome.us dijo: On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 11:35:30AM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: I wish to access files stored on CDs. I place the CD in the drive and close the door, and Xubuntu 13.10 automatically mounts it. The files are

Re: [PLUG] Mount point of optical drive

2013-12-26 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 12:06:44 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com dijo: On Thu, 26 Dec 2013, John Jason Jordan wrote: That's what I tried first, but it does not show the CDROM, even though Thunar sees the files on it: John, Do you have a mount point defined in /etc/fstab for

Re: [PLUG] Mount point of optical drive

2013-12-26 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 12:14:40 -0800 Roderick A. Anderson raander...@gmail.com dijo: I think you're suffering from the gvfsd-fuse. Check out that line and see if your CDROM is there. No such folder, nor is there a .gvfs* folder. That's odd, because I have run into this before on Ubuntus, and

Re: [PLUG] Mount point of optical drive

2013-12-26 Thread wes
The problem is that it isn't mounted in the traditional way we think of it. This is what GVFS is all about, it's a virtual file system which allows X-windows applications to access devices without mounting them. This is why mount doesn't show it - it wasn't mounted by mount. You can probably do

Re: [PLUG] Mount point of optical drive

2013-12-26 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 26 Dec 2013, John Jason Jordan wrote: Do you have a mount point defined in /etc/fstab for your optical drive? I already checked there. The only lines in fstab are for / and /home. Consider adding one. Rich ___ PLUG mailing list

Re: [PLUG] Mount point of optical drive

2013-12-26 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 12:38:27 -0800 wes p...@the-wes.com dijo: The problem is that it isn't mounted in the traditional way we think of it. This is what GVFS is all about, it's a virtual file system which allows X-windows applications to access devices without mounting them. This is why mount

Re: [PLUG] Mount point of optical drive

2013-12-26 Thread Dale Snell
On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 12:21:33 -0800 John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 12:04:23 -0800 Michael Rasmussen mich...@jamhome.us dijo: On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 11:35:30AM -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: I wish to access files stored on CDs. I place the CD in the drive

Re: [PLUG] Mount point of optical drive

2013-12-26 Thread wes
The problem is that it isn't mounted in the traditional way we think of it. This is what GVFS is all about, it's a virtual file system which allows X-windows applications to access devices without mounting them. This is why mount doesn't show it - it wasn't mounted by mount. That clears up

Re: [PLUG] Mount point of optical drive

2013-12-26 Thread Dale Snell
On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 12:49:45 -0800 John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: Everywhere on this computer I find references to sr0, so I'm pretty sure it's /dev/sr0. But: $ sudo mount /dev/sr0 /mnt mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: /dev/sr0: can't

Re: [PLUG] Mount point of optical drive

2013-12-26 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 12:51:55 -0800 Dale Snell ddsn...@frontier.com dijo: On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 12:21:33 -0800 John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 12:04:23 -0800 Michael Rasmussen mich...@jamhome.us dijo: On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 11:35:30AM -0800, John Jason Jordan

Re: [PLUG] Mount point of optical drive

2013-12-26 Thread Bill Barry
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 3:10 PM, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.netwrote: On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 12:51:55 -0800 Dale Snell ddsn...@frontier.com dijo: Try the lsblk(1) command Even better than df -h. Yes, lsblk is nice, thanks for that tip! The CD in the drive contains .wav files that

Re: [PLUG] Mount point of optical drive

2013-12-26 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 15:10:48 -0800 John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net dijo: The CD in the drive contains .wav files that are the result of a phonetics project. I need to convert them to mp3 so that I can easily analyze parts of them in Praat and share them with others interested in the work.

Re: [PLUG] Mount point of optical drive

2013-12-26 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 26 Dec 2013, Bill Barry wrote: This process is called ripping. Once you know the name you can find hundreds of different tools for doing it. I use one called jack. Audacity also allows conversion of .wav files to .mp3, ogg-vorbis, and a couple of other formats, including a loss-less