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Partition used for cd/dvd writing

Asked by passionguy

I m using Gutsy. Previously i was using Windows XP. I have left some three Windows partitions on my system intact.

When i write cd/dvds on windows, it will use the primary partition(C drive) as temporary space. If i dont have sufficient space on C drive, i will not be able to write dvd. I wanna know which temporary space is needed by Ubuntu as i have allocated only 10gb for my Ubuntu installation and incase if i dont have temporary space, can i allocate space for Ubuntu in fat32 or ntfs file systems

Thanks a lot in advance.....

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midnightflash (midnightflash) said : 		#1

I think it's the folder "/tmp". (but might depend on the program you use to burn)

You could write something like the following to your fstab:
 /tmp /mnt/NTFSFolderOfYourChoice none bind
in your /etc/fstab.

But this is not recommended.

Using K3B (you can install it from the official repos via Synaptics) you can set the Temp-folder youself to your needings (in the settings dialog). I'd highly recommend this.

Greetings.

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passionguy (fayazahmedj) said : 		#2

Thanks again. I like 2 know how much temporary space will be used for a cd/dvd during burning.

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Best midnightflash (midnightflash) said : 		#3

Of course... ;-)

depending of what you are doing it's from none if you just burn some dates over ~700mb for a CD-copy to 4,2Gb for a DVD-copy. (or evan ~9Gb for a double.layer-DVD-copy).

So let's say... if you got 5Gb free on the temp-partition it should work in (almost) every way.

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passionguy (fayazahmedj) said : 		#4

Thanx a lot....

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passionguy (fayazahmedj) said : 		#5

Thanks midnightflash, that solved my question.