From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Adams Subject: Re: CD writing in ext2 filesystem Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 14:50:13 +0000 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <02042414501301.04696@unix.pa3gcu> References: <200204232318.55166.mssnlayam@cs.annauniv.edu> <1019641504.16651.14.camel@Zebra> Reply-To: pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1019641504.16651.14.camel@Zebra> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Paul Furness , mssnlayam@cs.annauniv.edu Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 24 April 2002 09:45, Paul Furness wrote: > Hmm. Well, when CDs are created, the file system used is called iso9660. > What I _think_ has happened is that you have created a file on your hard > disk inside which you have created an ext2 filesystem, but then then you > recorded that file onto a CD. As far as I know, cdrecord will try and > interpreate the file you give it as either a CD image file (ie an > iso9660 file system) or a ufs file system. What it MAY have done is > created an iso9660 image on the CD and copied your file containing the > ext2 onto the CD as a file. In other words, to get at it you need to > mount the CD (as iso9660) and then mount the file inside the CD file > system. > > Try using mount without the -t option - it should recognise the file > system on the CD (if it is a working one) and mount it automatically. > you could then ls /mnt/cdrom and see if the file file.ext2 comes up. > > Is there a particular reason why you were trying to put an ext2 fiole > system on the CD rather than an ISO9660 one? > > Incidentally, if you just want to copy some stuff to a CD, the easiest > way is to use one of the nice graphical CD writing tools that are around > - try xcdroast, for example. If it is of any interest i do this all the time for backups, the cdrom needs to be mounted with iso9660 then one has an image on the cd of ones harddisk. ls -al /cdrom would then show up like a normall linux distribution tree. > > Hope that some of this helps... > > Paul. > > On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 18:48, Suriya Narayanan M S wrote: > > On Monday 22 April 2002 01:29, Pierre Rousselet wrote: > > > Suriya Narayanan M S wrote: > > > > # mount -t ext2 -o ro /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom > > > > > > Is there any error message following this command line ? > > > > Yes. > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom, > > or too many mounted file systems > > -- > > Guru Brahma Gurur Vishnu > > Gurur Dhevo Maheshwaraha > > Gurur Saakshaath Parabramha > > Thasmai Shree Gurave Namaha > > > > - > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" > > in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs -- Regards Richard pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs