Nero InCD Equivalent for UBUNTU?

[alex]

Tristan Wibberley wrote:
> alex wrote:
> 
>>Tristan Wibberley wrote:
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>>>Tristan Wibberley wrote:
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>>>>1) Create a udf filesystem using "sudo mkudffs --media-type=xxx
>>>>/dev/hdc"
>>>>2) Unmount the filesystem using "sudo umount /media/cdrom0"
>>>>3) mount the filesystem using "sudo mount -tudf
>>>>-orw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0"
>>>>4) go to "Places -> Computer -> Filesystem -> media -> cdrom0" to get
>>>>to it.
>>>>  
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>>>
>>>Okay, that's kind of messed up, ask if you don't understand this stuff
>>>before you do it.
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>>Thanks, Tristan,
>>I'm still on the low end of the learning curve when it comes to ubuntu
>>or linux so I could use
>>some help.
>>
>>In  #1,  Do you  type xxx directly or does xxx mean something else?
>>In #3,  "sudo mount -tudf -orw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user /dev/hdc
>>/media/cdrom0".
>>    a brief explanation would be very useful.
> 
> 
> Okay, If your disk already has been formatted by InCD, then you just
> need to do #2, then #3.
> 
> Here's some background
> 
> Media like hard disk partitions, floppy disks, and CD-ROMs have
> filesystems on them, these are structures and meta-data on the disk that
> enables your files to be named, located and tracked (so they can be
> listed on screen and you can click on them, or you can type their names
> into a program and it can open them). In Linux, a filesystem is
> "mounted" onto the "vfs". The vfs is the appearance that Linux gives of
> all the disks being in just one heirarchy of directories (in Windows,
> unless you know about junction points, all disks appear at the top level
> with letters). To give this illusion, you "mount" the filesystem of a
> disk onto an existing (usually empty) directory, and all the files and
> directories on the disk appear under that directory. So you can mount a
> CD on /media/cdrom0, and you can open a file named "foo" on the disk
> with the path /media/cdrom0/foo.
> 
> If your DVD+/-RW or DVD-RAM doesn't have a udf filesystem on it yet
> (which is the filesystem that InCD adds support for to Windows, the
> Linux kernel already supports it), you have to run the mkudffs command
> (Make UDF Filesystem). This command must be told which device represents
> the DVD drive (often /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd, might be /dev/hda if your
> hard disk is SATA, might be available as /dev/cdrom in any case), and
> can also be told what type of disk is in the drive, so set the
> appropriate options. The xxx (as described in my first answer) should be
> replaced by one of hd, dvd, dvdram, cdrw, worm or mo. Or you can just
> not give the --media-type option and it does something sensible anyway.
> 
> If it already has a UDF filesystem on it when you put it in the drive,
> GNOME probably mounted it on /media/cdrom0 with the wrong options. You
> can see if it has done so by typing "mount" at a terminal and looking
> for something like "/dev/hdc on /media/cdrom0 type udf
> (rw,nosuid,noexec,user=something)". If that is there, you need to do #2
> ("sudo umount /media/cdrom0") to unmount it, then do #3 ("sudo mount
> -tudf -orw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0") to mount it
> again.
> 
> #3 is an instruction to the kernel (via a program called "mount" to
> inspect the device "/dev/hdc" for a UDF filesystem and mount it on the
> directory "/media/cdrom0" with the options "rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user"
> which mean, respectively:
> 
>  * rw supports both reading and writing to the filesystem (so you can
> open/read/write to/delete/move/hardlink/symbolically link files, and
> make/delete directories, etc)
>  * noexec does not allow programs to be executed directly from the disk
> (this can be a security hazard, as it is easy to run a program which has
> been put there while the disk was ina nother computer. To run programs
> from it you can either leave of the noexec option, or copy the program
> files to your home directory and run them there.
>  * nosuid does not allow programs run on it to be run with administrator
> privileges without using sudo. This is added for good measure, as noexec
> prevents them from being executed in the dirst place
>  * nodev prevents system device files stored on the filesystem from
> being effective as another computer could be used to gain privileged
> access to system facilities by clever use of device files.
>  * user allows the /media/cdrom0 directory to have files created and
> deleted by regular users (those other than root).
> 
> These options may have slightly different meanings for different
> filesystem types (eg, udf, iso9660, vfat, ext2, ext3, reiserfs, reiser4,
> xfs, jfs, ntfs).
> 
> Hope this helps, and I hope this can be improved for Dapper next year.
> 
Thanks for patiently breaking it down into simpler terms, Tristan.  I 
tried to muddle through 'man mount' but it was information overload to me.
I'm taking time out now to see what I can do with your excellent 
explanations.
alex