Re: cannot stat hidden windows files in a cdrom...

From: Dennis Bliefernicht
Date: Mon Aug 18 2003 - 14:06:25 EST


Alessandro Salvatori wrote:
> if a cdrom burnt under windows contains hidden files you cannot see
> and/or read them from linux. while you can see hidden files in mounted
> windows filesystems. This happens with any Linux kernel and i have no
> idea how windows does burn these hidden files on cdroms and wether or
> not it would be good for Linux to read them, anyway there is a
> "Microsoft Joliet CDROM extensions" voice that claims to let you read
> Joliet cdroms and maybe you would like these file to be read too.

Did you try the unhide mount option?

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