With relation to:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=179213
I see the same issue. The CD RW is automounted since it already has data
on it: you want to erase and reuse the disk. The workaround for me is to
manually umount via a terminal: this is not a user thing to be doing.
There used to be a thing called ~"user mount tools" that you could
unmount stuff with, I doesn't seem to be installed / no longer packaged
?. Also there is an options tool for removable media where you could
disable automount - but this is not what you want either.
So the question is where should this issue be addressed ?
- gnome's automount - there is an icon on the desktop, right clicking in
this incarnation (was OK FC4 I think - unmount) provides an eject
option; but this ejects the disc, at which point you can't erase it.
Re-inserting causes the automount. Enough to drive sane people over the
wall ;-)
A solution would be for the automounted CD's context menu to provide an
Unmount command. simple/obvious (if the desktop is visible), does not
require users to do command line hacks.
- k3b - is it up to k3b to forcefully unmount the CD-RW so that erase /
write process can begin (or at least list exactly what is holding it
from unmounting the disk so that erase can start). It probably needs
better interpretation of error codes received to state to user how to
fix the problem, rather than failing (a bad impression). And a button to
instruct k3b to "really" unmount it (no matter what), when the error occurs.
- is it up2 the cdrecord tools to unmount it ?
[no workarounds - only permanent user usable solutions]
DaveT.
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