mounting cdrom problem

[Stephen]

I'm pretty new at Linux but I've been learning and having fun. Been
having no prob with my cdrom until yesterday when I typed (running RH
6.0).

"mount /mnt/cdrom" like I always do and I got the error

"Wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom or too many
mounted file systems"

I have no idea what this means beyond the fact that I can't access my
cdrom anymore in Linux. thanks in advance

Steve
sbsc...@home.com

[Tony Lawrence]

Stephen wrote:

> "mount /mnt/cdrom" like I always do and I got the error
>
> "Wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom or too many
> mounted file systems"
>
> I have no idea what this means beyond the fact that I can't access my
> cdrom anymore in Linux. thanks in advance

First, try being explicit:

mount -r /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

If that works, then your /etc/fstab got hosed somehow.
However, that would be unlikely without screwing you up in
other ways.

You can get that error with a music cd in the drive, too..

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[Stephen]

thanks- worked out- had a music cd in my drive!