Public bug reported:
Affects: nautilus-cd-burner libnautilus-burn3 (Ubuntu)
Severity: Normal
Priority: (none set)
Status: Unconfirmed
Description:
On a default Ubuntu install, /tmp is on /. If / is sufficiently small
(mine is 6.0 gigabytes), burning a DVD may fill up /.
This seems to be a difficult issue to resolve. Here are a few thoughts.
- Although most default Ubuntu installs place /home on / and thus allocate the
largest portion of the drive to /, this does not preclude the drive from
filling up. My /home used to be a 60GB partition, I filled it. It is now 90GB
and 80% full. A user with a large drive may still run into this issue.
- Using a separate /tmp would take space away from /home or /, largely as a
waste.
- Using a tmpfs on /tmp is impossible; the tmpfs will fill up and the system
will fall into swap thrashing
- Building the image on the fly may fail. An option to do this in nautilus
would be useful, however; drives on separate IDE busses (primary/secondary) or
SATA drives will have little to no trouble keeping up. Nautilus should
activate buffer underrun protection if this is done, so that the recording
speed reduces automatically if the buffer can't be kept full.
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Nautilus DVD burning may fill up drive
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/38650
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