[plug] CD Disk label reading?

Matt Kemner zombie at wasp.net.au
Tue Jun 5 10:48:27 WST 2001


On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Trevor Phillips wrote:

> I've hunted around the usual Linux doc sites, but haven't really found
> anything that'll do what I want - which is to find out the "label" of a CD.
> ie; I'm looking for a simple tool to read an ISO image and tell me the ISO
> disk label. The closest I've come so far is to run a Windows app using WINE
> which'll show disk labels - and that truncates the label anyway...

Try "isoinfo" (comes with mkisofs)

live:~# isoinfo -i /CDTemp/potato/binary-i386-1_NONUS.raw -d
CD-ROM is in ISO 9660 format
System id: LINUX
Volume id: Debian 2.2 r3 i386 Bin-1_NONUS
<SNIP>

Is that what you were after?

 - Matt




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