DVD burning in Warty

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 03:27:08AM +0300, Sivan Green wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 17:10:23 -0700, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at canonical.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 02:52:09PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > 
> > > The only gotcha (but it's a big one) is that with rewritables, if the disc
> > > already contains a filesystem, it will be automounted on insert, and must be
> > > unmounted before writing.  Currently, this means either using the command
> > > line, or going into Computer->Disks, right-click, Unmount volume, neither of
> > > which is discoverable.  :-/
> > 
> > Indeed, even when I unmount it before doing the burn, it mounts it _again_
> > in the middle of the process.  I'm surprised that works at all, but it does,
> > and it's very confusing.
> > 
> > 
> 
> We can just add a "umount" option on the mount manipulation menu. (right click)

There is one already, as I mentioned above.  However, it is not at all
obvious to the user who wants to eject or burn a CD.

(filing this as #1234)

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 - mdz