Cannot make a copy of video DVD with k3b

[Paul Cartwright]

On 08/07/2014 03:59 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
>>
>> so it went from 4 to 3 tmpfs processes??
>> or is it just the lack of the tmpfs process /tmp ??
>
> First, /tmp starts out as just a directory on the root filesystem ("/").
>
> Before your reboot, the system created a tmpfs filesystem and mounted
> it at /tmp. Therefore it's listed as a separate filesystem in "df"
> (because there IS a separate filesystem of type "tmpfs" mounted there)
> and it's 3.9G in size (meaning you probably have 8G of RAM).
>
> After your reboot, /tmp remains just a directory on your / filesystem.
> It won't display as a separate filesystem (because nothing's mounted
> there) and your / filesystem is 20G with 5.6G free at the moment.
>
> This new layout (with 5.6G free) would have been enough to create the
> ISO image in /tmp, whereas with the tmpfs crap, /tmp was only 3.9G and
> half your RAM was sucked up by that. Now you have all 8G of RAM
> available. 
thank you! makes sense..

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