On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 7:21 PM, fred smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 10:43:07AM -0700, MHR wrote: >> >> 2) That said, I have never been able to erase a rewritable disc with >> K3B. It always errors out because it claims the disc is in use (well, >> yeah, it's mounted!). The last time this happened (a few days ago), I >> extracted the erasure command from K3B's log and created a shell >> script to do the job, complete with umount. That works just fine. >> (I'm open to K3B suggestions that would be more convenient here - >> hint, hint.... :-) > : > > What you need to do is: before letting K3B try to erase the dvd/rw is to > manually umount the volume, then k3b will work fine. (as root, type in > "mount", figure out which one is the volume in question, then issue > a "umount <mountpoint>" still as root.) > Or just right-click the icon and select "Unmount".... Shell scripts work fine, too. :-) mhr