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external hard drive type is unknown in ubuntu

I plugged my western digital elements 2tb external hdd into ubuntu machine. Somehow my laptop hard drive got corrupted, and as soon as I connected my external drive it showed me as "CD_ROM" Then I ...
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Cannot delete from UDF partition (SSD)

I have Xubuntu 16.10 and I dual boot with Windows 10. I have a secondary SSD drive and wanted to choose a somewhat OS-agnostic filesystem for it so I can use it both Windows and Linux, and after ...
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Problem mounting old UDF cds

My father passed away last month, and I'm trying to recover some photos from some old cd-r's he left in his office. They appear to have been written using Roxio Easy CD-Creator. It burns both a udf ...
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Can't read superblock- UDF DVD

I'm having trouble mounting my UDF-formated DVD. It used to work when mounted as a read-only device but suddenly one day the system was unable to mount the DVD. I searched everywhere I could on ...
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Is there a way to edit a UDF disk image file/ISO image?

I have an ISO image with a UDF filesystem and a boot sector and I need to add a file to it. When I do sudo mount -o loop,rw /tmp/file.iso /tmp/dir I get mount: block device /tmp/file.iso is write-...
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Failed to mount UDF

I'm on Xubuntu 64 bit 14.04. When I had windows 7, I burnt a CD, it was like 4 months ago, now I need to open that CD in Xubuntu, since I no longer have windows. Solution 1 (didn't work) sudo apt-...
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How to open UDF Volume

I have a DVD which I can open in Windows, but in my Ubuntu 12.04 installation I cannot any more. I receive this error: Unable to mount UDF Volume Error mounting: mount: block device /dev/sr0 is ...
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Mounting UDF hard drive partition at boot

How do I get a UDF hard drive partition to mount at boot? From what I can figure, mountall runs before the udf module loads. Specifically: do PREREQ specifications in initramfs-tools hooks only ...
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UDF DVD mount issues in Maverick

When I insert the DVD into my drive i see it mounts, but i can not access it unless i am root. Doing ls -l on the mount i get no access permissions: $ pwd /media $ ls -l d--------- 4 haimov haimov ...
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