Re: [PLUG] HD hosed by stupidity and xcdroast

["Steven M. Castellotti" <scastell@sas.upenn.edu>]

Michael Leone wrote:
> 
> I *knew* there was a reason I disliked that damn program.
> 
> I set it up tonight; told it to use /tmp as image storage. Apparently, I
> misunderstood what it wanted, since the thing wanted a *partition* that it
> could mount, to use as storage for the CD images. Not a directory, or a
> mount point - it wanted it's own dedicated, actual, unmounted partition,
> like /dev/hdb2. I thought that's what it wanted, and then said "Nahh ... it
> must mean a directory to use, not a whole unmounted partition. Lemme tell it
> to use /tmp".

	Uhm, I don't know about xcdroast, but I use xcdrgtk (the gtk version of
xcdroast), and in fact I've been using a alpha version for about two
months now (version 0.98alpha7) with absolutely *no* problems. CD images
are temporarily created/stored in /var/tmp/image (a directory i created
in /var/tmp) which is the same partition as / and pretty much everything
else, actually.

> And when xcdroast went to mount the partition, and asked me if it should
> mount the image mount point (i.e., should it mount the /dev/hdb2 partition -
> since it couldn't figure out that /tmp was just a directory on an already
> mounted partition), what did fumble fingers me do?

	I don't understand how attempting to *mount* a directory should have
done any damage to your filesystem, are you sure it didn't ask you to
initialize the image mount point?

	Anyway, if the problem was a bug in xcdroast, it appears to have been
fixed during the re-write for gtk. The new gtk-based problem is
impressive in regards to it's features and capabilities, incidentally.


-- 
Steve Castellotti
Systems Programmer
School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania


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