Re: [SLUG] thunar vs DVDs

From: Paul Bransford (draeath@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Nov 28 2008 - 02:16:52 EST


Looks like you missed UDF. That's the (normal) file system for DVDs...
it can handle much larger (<4gb) files than vanilla ISO9660.

You'll also want the Rock-Ridge extensions if that's still an option.

On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 02:03 -0500, Eben King wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Nov 2008, Eben King wrote:
>
> > I rebuilt my kernel (several times, until I got it mostly right), and now
> > Thunar (xfce's file manager) doesn't see CDs/DVDs. It sees USB flash (thumb)
> > drives, so it kinda works. Plus I can mount and read CDs/DVDs by other
> > means, so it's not as if I forgot to build some CD support module. Any clues?
>
> I take that back, it works on some discs. The successes are a mix of burned
> and pressed, but always are reported by "file" to be:
>
> ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data UDF filesystem data (unknown version, id 'NSR0
>
> When that disc is mounted, "mount" says:
>
> /dev/hda on /media/CDROM type iso9660
>
> and /proc/filesystems contains iso9660 but not udf (no doubt they're
> configured as modules). For the failures, "file - < /dev/hda" says "data".
> I haven't figured out the pattern yet.
>

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