Why xcdroast and not gcombust?

[Michal Jaegermann]

On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 01:02:01PM +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> 
> To create a new CD, select "Go -> CD Creator" in the menu, or enable
> magicdev and just insert a blank cd. Then drop the files you want into
> the window and click on the cd writing icon in the toolbar.

This operation does not feed cdrecord from stdin via mkisofs, as one
could reasonably expect, but builds a temporary iso image in /tmp.
If there is a way to change that location it is so well hidden that
so far I failed to find it.  A corollary is that you better have
enough of a disk space in /tmp or you will run into troubles; more
so if /tmp is a part of /.  Overflowing / is a barrel of fun.

It is hard to think of a good reason why these "real" iso images
on a disk are really created here.  They tend to stick around, for
example, in abnormal termination conditions.  Maybe the idea was
that some of material to put on CD is mounted over a network and
a network is slow or unreliable?  Local networks in practice tend
to be fast enough.  Shrug!

If /tmp is not that big and you have space on some other file system
you can "bind-mount" /tmp from there (early enough in a boot process
or some things may "vanish" :-).  Such workarounds were likely not
intended for drag-and-drop crowd.

  Michal