How to examine the contents of a CD/DVD in the drive.

[Lisa Kachold]

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

ls -al /mnt/cdrom

On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Matt Graham <danceswithcrows at usa.net>wrote:

> From: joe at actionline.com
> > What utility can one use to examine the contents of a CD or DVD in
> > a drive?  Sometimes I've left an unlabeled CD or DVD in the drive
> > and I can't remember or don't know if it is blank, an iso, a
>
> "cdrecord -toc dev=/dev/NNN" will print out the table of contents on the
> CD/DVD that's in /dev/NNN .  If it's a blank, the TOC will be empty.  If
> there's something on the disc, it'll have at least one track, multiple
> tracks
> if there are multiple sessions or it's an audio CD.  No idea what you'd get
> for a defective disc.  It'd probably vary with the exact defect.
>
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