[FC5] Unable to blank CD-RW

[Jeff Vian]

On Sat, 2006-09-09 at 02:11 +0100, Thufir wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Sep 2006 23:37:49 +0200, Antonio Montagnani wrote:
> 
> > 2006/9/8, Thufir <hawat.thufir at gmail.com>:
> >> On Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:26:48 +0200, Antonio Montagnani wrote:
> >> [...]
> >> > how do you unmount a CD inserted in the burner if you don'have such
> >> > graphical option??
> >> > In any case k3b unmounted it by itself, this is my opinion......and my
> >> > experience, I blanked regularly CD-RW
> >> > --
> >> > Antonio Montagnani
> >> > Skype : antoniomontag
> >>
> >> Some useful commands:
> >>
> >> df     diskfree
> >> du     diskusage
> >> mount  to mount
> >> umount to unmount, notice spelling weirdness.
> >>
> >>
> >> yes, read the man pages.  yes, you can ask "how do I use the umount
> >> command to unmount the CDRW drive?" but more info is required to answer
> >> that question than, I believe, you've given.  Maybe the info is there,
> >> I didn't look as there's so much, though.
> >>
> >>
> >> HTH,
> >>
> >>
> >> Thufir
> >>
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> >>
> > My opinion is different....
> > A standard user must be able to blank a CD-RW without reading the
> > manual, i.e. k3b or nautilus must accomplish the task (that is not my
> > case now) otherwise Windows will rule for many years in front of us!!!
> > 
> > Just my two cents
> >
While it may be less than clear that a disk MUST be unmounted to write
to it (except with UDF on RW disks), that is a necessity for both
burning a CDR and formatting a CDRW.  K3b does not do that for you and I
have at times overlooked the fact that disks automount when trying to
copy disks and when formatting the CDRW (even though I have years of
experience and am thus not a newbie)

I agree that it may be useful to have that option in k3b and you can
easily submit a feature request to the authors. 

>  
> > Cheers
> > -- 
> > Antonio Montagnani
> > Skype : antoniomontag
> 
> 
> ROFL.  Yes, you shouldn't have to read a manual for what you're doing. 
> However, it's not working for you, hence the suggestions.  My linux
> knowledge isn't deep, and might even be wrong, but it's free ;)
> 
> 
> -Thufir
> 
>