[Tutor] Reading the CDROM in Linux

Terry Carroll carroll at tjc.com
Sat Nov 6 02:22:38 CET 2010


On Sat, 6 Nov 2010, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> Anyway, more modern Linux systems automatically mount CDs and DVDs. By 
> convention, /mnt/... is used for manually mounts, and /media/... for 
> automatic mounts of media.

I am seeing my volume in /media ; however, I won't know the volume name 
when my program runs.  I can't use whatever shows up in /media, because 
there could be more than one drive.


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