DVD Filesystems
March 5, 2009 9:53 PM Subscribe
What would cause certain folders to show up when a DVD is mounted under Windows (XP, FWIW), but not to show up under Linux (Ubuntu Intrepid)?
I was given the wonderful New York Times Complete Front Pages as a birthday present, but I can't see all the folders when running in Linux (when it is automounted, or the ripped image is mounted loopback). I'm aware of Rock Ridge and Joliet extensions, but AFAIR, these are for POSIX permissions and Unicode filenames respectively (and are for CDROMS).
What could be going on?
And as an addendum, how are .idx and .pdx files (indices, I presume) handled by Acrobat?
I was given the wonderful New York Times Complete Front Pages as a birthday present, but I can't see all the folders when running in Linux (when it is automounted, or the ripped image is mounted loopback). I'm aware of Rock Ridge and Joliet extensions, but AFAIR, these are for POSIX permissions and Unicode filenames respectively (and are for CDROMS).
What could be going on?
And as an addendum, how are .idx and .pdx files (indices, I presume) handled by Acrobat?
Response by poster: Windows:
posted by claudius at 10:38 PM on March 5, 2009
D:\>dir
Volume in drive D is NYT-DVD1
Volume Serial Number is F494-9527
Directory of D:\
07/02/2008 04:57 AM <DIR> AutoRunSrc
07/01/2008 10:28 PM <DIR> Index
06/30/2007 05:05 PM 1,024,000 autorun.exe
07/02/2008 04:57 AM 2,238 autorun.ico
07/02/2008 04:57 AM 47 autorun.inf
07/02/2008 11:58 AM <DIR> pdf
07/02/2008 01:51 AM <DIR> setup
3 File(s) 1,026,285 bytes
4 Dir(s) 0 bytes free
Linux:
$ ls -l cdrom/ total 88 drwxrwxrwx 5 root root 2048 2008-07-01 21:28 Index drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 88064 2008-07-02 10:58 pdf
posted by claudius at 10:38 PM on March 5, 2009
Best answer: If those are hidden files, then by default Linux doesn't show them. Run "man mount" and then search for Mount options for iso9660. There's an "unhide" option. Not knowing Ubuntu, you probably do something like this:
mount -t iso9660 -o unhide /dev/dvd /mnt/dvd
But you can't really do anything with these files anyway, unless you're brave enough to run them through Wine.
posted by sbutler at 10:51 PM on March 5, 2009
mount -t iso9660 -o unhide /dev/dvd /mnt/dvd
But you can't really do anything with these files anyway, unless you're brave enough to run them through Wine.
posted by sbutler at 10:51 PM on March 5, 2009
Response by poster: knave: ls -la gave the same.
sbutler:
The option 'unhide' was promising, but to no cigar. '-t udf' doesn't mount at all, so at lease we know it's ISO9660.
While reading the man page I saw the option 'norock', to turn off rock ridge extensions, which worked.
Thanks for your suggestion.
posted by claudius at 11:52 PM on March 5, 2009
sbutler:
The option 'unhide' was promising, but to no cigar. '-t udf' doesn't mount at all, so at lease we know it's ISO9660.
While reading the man page I saw the option 'norock', to turn off rock ridge extensions, which worked.
Thanks for your suggestion.
posted by claudius at 11:52 PM on March 5, 2009
Glad you got it to work! Re-reading my post, I said:
Not knowing Ubuntu, you probably do something like this
What I meant was:
I am not familiar with Ubuntu, but you probably do something like this
Didn't mean to cast doubt on your Linux knowledge :)
posted by sbutler at 12:01 AM on March 6, 2009
Not knowing Ubuntu, you probably do something like this
What I meant was:
I am not familiar with Ubuntu, but you probably do something like this
Didn't mean to cast doubt on your Linux knowledge :)
posted by sbutler at 12:01 AM on March 6, 2009
Response by poster: Heh;-)
I'm a bit ashamed I didn't just read the manpage to start with, but oh well...
posted by claudius at 7:14 AM on March 6, 2009
I'm a bit ashamed I didn't just read the manpage to start with, but oh well...
posted by claudius at 7:14 AM on March 6, 2009
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posted by sbutler at 10:19 PM on March 5, 2009