Nautilus troubles writing to CD

brian fedora at logi.ca
Wed Oct 22 14:34:06 UTC 2008


brian wrote:
> Fedora 7
> Nautilus 2.18.3
> 
> I'm unable to burn a CD using the Nautilus CD/DVD creator. The image 
> seems to be created and shows the size at 665.6 MB. However, as soon as 
> the writing process begins i get this error:
> 
> -- snip --
> Error writing to disc
> There was an error writing to the disc:
> The files selected did not fit on the CD.
> -- snip --
> 
> The only thing Google shows me are po translations of this error msg. 
> There are a few pages online describing an error accessing the disc but 
> nothing about files not fitting. I've tried removing about half the 
> files and also changing discs with the same result.
> 
> I'm really unsure of how to debug this. Anyone have any ideas?
> 

Never mind. I installed K3b and had the same result. Except it helpfully 
points out that i don't have enough room on /tmp (894MB available).

I've no idea why I only allocated 961 MB to /tmp in the first place. Not 
smart. Off to figure out how to change that ...




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