How can I find out the file path for my laptop's dvd drive

Question

Normally I insert a DVD in the drive and I get a prompt that leads me to the movie player app and all is well. How can I find the drive file in the event the prompt doesn't show up or something goes wrong. I looked in the dev directory and nothing jumped out at me?

Answer 1

you can use dmesg from terminal to find out info about connected drives, but you have to mount a device to browse the file system. DVD is usually mounted in /media directory.