Mounting DVD-RW as a RW Filesystem

[ArealPerson]

Hi,

I'm using F12

Is it possiable to mount a DVD-RW disk as a RW filesystem so I can do things like ...

mkdir /dev/dvd/mydir
cp ~/.profile /dev/dvd
ls -la /dev/dvd

etc.

I would like to use it, even create a partition on it using cfdisk or somthing.
Can I do that ?

If so, what is the mount command or tools I need ?

Thanks
-Areal

[Rubberman]

I don't know how, or if, you can do this. I haven't been able to mount a DVD ram disc for dynamic r+w capabilities either. Actually, a DVD+RW can be rewritten, but you cannot do so dynamically. Windows software will let you emulate a dynamically re-writable disc because it actually writes the data to a virtual disc on your hard drive, and then writes it to the DVD when you close it. On the other hand, a DVD-RAM disc is capable of true sector I/O in the dynamic sense. A DVD+-R or DVD+-RW has to be written serially, a DVD-RAM can be written a sector at a time, anywhere on the disc.

[ArealPerson]

Well, actually, I can't even seem to mount a DVD-RW from the command line
I've tried everything.

It will mount on F12 on the desktop as soon as I insert the RW disk.
But if I do a df -ah it does not show as being mounted ? e.g
************************************************** ******
[root@linux-cluster-1 ~]# df -ah
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root
142G 17G 124G 12% /
proc 0 0 0 - /proc
sysfs 0 0 0 - /sys
devpts 0 0 0 - /dev/pts
tmpfs 1.5G 112K 1.5G 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 194M 73M 111M 40% /boot
none 0 0 0 - /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc
sunrpc 0 0 0 - /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs
nfsd 0 0 0 - /proc/fs/nfsd
gvfs-fuse-daemon 0.0K 0.0K 0.0K - /home/mvaughn/.gvfs
/dev/sdb1 932G 151G 781G 17% /media/TeraByte-1
[root@linux-cluster-1 ~]#
************************************************** ***********
As you can see it's NOT HERE, but I can click its icon on the desktop and burn files.

here's my /etc/fstab
************************************************** ****************************
/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root / ext4 defaults 1 1
UUID=d3c0580d-e8a0-4762-84a3-f100b9dea320 /boot ext4 defaults 1 2
/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_swap swap swap defaults 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/dvdrw /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
************************************************** ******************************

The last line does NOTHING.

Can someone help me to mount my DVD-RW drive from the command line ?

I've tried "mount -t udf /dev/dvd /mnt/dvd" ' I also tried dvdrw with no luck !

What can I try ?

Thanks,
-Areal