On 07Aug2014 15:15, ed greshko <ed.greshko(a)greshko.com> wrote:
On 08/07/14 15:11, antonio montagnani wrote:
> Joe Zeff ha scritto / said the following il giorno/on 07/08/2014 08:34:
>> On 08/06/2014 11:31 PM, Doug wrote:
>>> This is not an answer, but a question: Is there a bit-by-bit copy
>>> program that will copy _anything_ exactly, including encoding. so that
>>> Antonio's last
>>> comment becomes moot?
>>
>> You should be able to do that with dd.
>
> of course I solved as suggested changing the image folder....but in my opinion for a
new Linux user it should not happen to have to change any k3b setting as it should work
immediately or to have to use dd. Please note that this is a fresh Fedora 20 installation
and it is the first time that I wanted to make a DVD copy on this machine (it didn't
happen for example in F18 or F19 on another machine)
> Tnx to all
The "reason" it happened was probably due to changes which means /tmp is now
mounted as tmpfs.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/tmp-on-tmpfs
You may want to consider writing a bugzilla asking to change the defaults of k3b to use
/var/tmp.
Or you could just ask k3b to use a different temp directory.
Many programs will honour the $TMPDIR environment variable, which I personally
tend to set to $HOME/tmp.
I do not know if k3b pays it any attention, but you can try:
$ mkdir $HOME/tmp
$ TMPDIR=$HOME/tmp k3b
Regarding /tmp as tmpfs being "idiocy", many platform do this. Solaris used to
years and years ago. It makes /tmp really fast. And really, /tmp is for small
stuff and is meant to be cleaned out regularly.
No matter how big it is, some tasks will exceed what /tmp offers. Take control:
use a temp dir of your own for big stuff. DVDs are still big.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs(a)zip.com.au>
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