nautilus-cd-burner does not burn on-the-fly

[Stefan Bethge]

When burning data to a dvd, say for backup,
nautilus complains about not having enough space for temporary data (like "The selected location does not have enough space to store the disc image (1613 MiB needed)"). That makes a user unable to free
the harddisk by burning a dvd when there is not enough space for other things left.
(Of course it works when there is enough free space
to create an image)
Nautilus-cd-burner should either ask to use on-the-fly
when there is not enough space or use it by default
anyway to speed the burning process up.
Additionally i noticed that burn-proof was not enabled in gconf, should that be detected and enabled?

[Renzokiller (renzokiller)]

I agree with that. I think it's stupid to make an iso of any data which is ever on local hard disk... even if I could understand it could be difficult to implement.

[Stefan Bethge (kjyv)]

I don't know exactly what is possible, but since there are some burning tools like k3b and even xcdroast which do this (probably by a simple pipe from mkisofs to cdrecord?), it should be possible for nautilus as well. Determining if data is local or not might become a problem but as long as the cd burner supports something like burnproof, it shouldn't be a problem to burn across networks as well.

[Vincenzo Ciancia (vincenzo-ml)]

This can really block an user: I have my home partition full, I have no place to put data on, I decide to burn a DVD in order to free some space, and I discover that I can't burn a DVD in order to free some space, since I have to free some space in order to burn a DVD. This bug should be marked as high priority since burning a DVD can be the only option to get out of a stuck situation. Can brasero replace nautilus-cd-burner?

[Adi Roiban (adiroiban)]

I agree with Stefan.
Burning on the fly may not be as fool proof as making first an iso but in sometimes (when you don't have enough space on the disk) it make writing a dvd impossible.

[goto (gotolaunchpad)]

This one is very similar to bug 66804. Could one take those two together?

[Vincenzo Ciancia (vincenzo-ml)]

Would be fine for me... even better if the bug had an hope to get fixed :) but brasero replaced nautilus-cd-burner in recent releases, didn't it? And it should burn on the fly so should this bug be closed? Sorry but I don't remember well the situation and am... sigh... using windows at the moment due to winmodem at home.

[goto (gotolaunchpad)]

I have marked the other bug as a duplicate of this one, because this one is the older one. To have only one bug per issue is always more clear. I marked this bug as 'Confirmed', because the problem really exists and I couldn't set it to 'Triaged'.
Thanks.