deltamoins wrote: > OK so in fact what I meant was I didn't manage to remount my cdrom by the command proposed by Dan Kegel : > > > sudo umount /media/cdrom > > sudo mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom -o norock > > The second command doesn't work because of writting protection problems as I said. > Of course if I eject and put back my cdrom it will re-mount by itself well... > Perhpas I don't understand what yoi said gnivler... What do you mean "put it out of use" ? To remount your cdrom, try : Code: sudo mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom -o norock -o ro It will mount it in read only, so the write permission will not be tested.