You know Brasero, the new (and very shiny) CD burning suite in Hardy Heron? I have had two problems with it thus far in the course of burning the RC ISO from my beta installation. My root partition for the beta only had around 550 MB left – not enough to mirror the ISO in a temporary directory. It failed with a vague error message:
Error while burning:
the selected location does not have enough free space to store the disk image (692 MiB needed).
Yes, the error message really was that poorly written. I tried another CD, thinking (incorrectly) that there might be something wrong with the CD itself, but I noticed that Brasero itself reported the CD with 702 MiB or so of space, and recordable. I poked around, and under the properties button next to the drive selection, I found a temporary directory with, you guessed it, around 550 MB free space. I told it to use my other ext3 partition, and it burned the disk happily. It then ejected the disk, then requested I put it back in for a read verify check. I did so, but Nautilus popped up first, showing me the contents of the disk, and there was also a package manager asking since there were packages on the disk if I wanted it to open. I said no. Brasero complained that the drive was in use. So much for read verify. I’ll see if I can post my errors somewhere where they can be addressed. Maybe they’re already fixed in the RC…
EDIT: Yup, it seems to be fixed now. I got a read verify to run.
EDIT2: It helps to disable the automatic display of the contents of new media in Nautilus’ preferences. To disable everything Nautilus does to the disk, you’d probably have to disable it popping anything up when a disk has software on it, too.