"Steven D'Aprano" wrote
I usually mount cdroms on /dev/cdrom
Surely that's where you mount cdroms *from*? I can't think that
using /dev/cdrom as the mount point would be a good idea!
Oops, yes, that should be /usr/cdrom, sorry.
Alan G.
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On Fri, 5 Nov 2010, Terry Carroll wrote:
Aha, this looks like it will work; I was starting to think along these lines;
I was thinking of reading the output of df, but this is cleaner.
Just to close this out, here's what's working for me. It will need to be
prettied up, and the "/media/" para
This is more of a Linux question, but here is some advice:
All files under /dev are more or less raw representations of the
devices, meaning that /dev/cdrom or /dev/sr0 files represent the CDROM
devices, however this is for raw access to the device data, now really
for normal use, the sistem may "
On Sat, 6 Nov 2010, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Terry Carroll wrote:
I have a program that traverses the directory of a CDROM using os.walk. I
do most of my work on Windows, but some on (Ubuntu) Linux, and I'd like
this to work in both environments.
On Windows, I do something along the lines of t
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
But if you might have an external hard drive plugged in, or a USB key,
or similar, then you need to find out what the volume name of the
mounted CD drive is. That's a good question and I don't have an answer
right now. Let me think about it and get back to you.
Well th
Terry Carroll wrote:
I have a program that traverses the directory of a CDROM using os.walk.
I do most of my work on Windows, but some on (Ubuntu) Linux, and I'd
like this to work in both environments.
On Windows, I do something along the lines of this:
startpoint="D:/"
What if the user h
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 pr
Alan Gauld wrote:
I don't use Ubuntu so don;t know the standard anmswer there but it will
depend on where the CD is mounterd.
I usually mount cdroms on /dev/cdrom
Surely that's where you mount cdroms *from*? I can't think that using
/dev/cdrom as the mount point would be a good idea!
Anyw
Alan Gauld wrote:
I don't use Ubuntu so don;t know the standard anmswer
there but it will depend on where the CD is mounterd.
I usually mount cdroms on /dev/cdrom
That's what I figured; I now realize I didn't say so in my email, but it's
mounted at /dev/sr0, which is where I came up with tha
"Terry Carroll" wrote
On Windows, I do something along the lines of this:
startpoint="D:/"
for (root, dirs, files) in os.walk(startpoint):
(stuff)
What would I use for startpoint in Linux?
I don't use Ubuntu so don;t know the standard anmswer
there but it will depend on where t
I have a program that traverses the directory of a CDROM using os.walk.
I do most of my work on Windows, but some on (Ubuntu) Linux, and I'd like
this to work in both environments.
On Windows, I do something along the lines of this:
startpoint="D:/"
for (root, dirs, files) in os.walk(start
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