On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> I do have an issue with k3b (CentOS 5.2, 32 >bit), but nothing >> >> >> >> grave. I cannot erase >CD-RW media with k3b, most or all of the >> >> >> > I struggled with this, trying as many ways as I >could think of, and >> >> >> > eventually thought it must be impossible. > Then a couple of days >> >> >> > ago I desperately needed a CD, and I'd run >out of blanks. I put a >> >> >> > CD-RW into the drive on a box where I hadn't >used k3b before. K3b >> >> >> > opened up with a tip-of-the-day - and miracle >of miracles, it asked >> >> >> > if I knew that I didn't need to erase the >CD-RW as k3b could do it >> >> >> > on the fly. I'd nothing to lose, so I asked it to >burn the iso. It >> >> >> > asked if I wanted it to blank the disc and use >it. I got a clean, >> >> >> > verified burn, and used the CD-RW to do an >install! <snip> > No. Perhaps I did not make it clear. I did not allow the >disk to be mounted. > The tip opened up when k3b recognised the disk, which >has nothing to do with > mounting. If you can't avoid mounting the disk, then you >must umount it > before attempting to use it with k3b. OK. I've made some tests and if you believe that anything I ran into warrants a bug or support request against K3b, on CentOS.org and/or RedHat.com please tell me. I opened a terminal window, "su -" and then "umount /dev/hdd" and then I exited from the shell. (a) I can use the drop down menu, "Tools" > "Erase CD-RW", without any problem. (b) I can write new files to the CD-RW. I did not get a message, asking me if I wanted it to erase the CD-RW media. It did *not* erase the existing files on the CD-RW media, before writing the new files. It added the new files, as if the CD-RW were a multi session disk. (c) In the K3b list of files in my home directory (/home/lanny) it showed files that had been deleted previously.