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Attempted to copy a full-size DVD with DVD r/w in k3b.
Error reported insufficient temporary storage.
The DVD is 3.9GB.
What can be done to eliminate the error?
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dunno... but maybe it would be better to copy DVD to HD to DVD rather than straight DVD to DVD copy?
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If you're using the default settings, k3b probably tries to create the temporary image in your /tmp, which is (by default) a virtual filesystem in your RAM. When k3b reports that it ran out of temporary storage, your RAM was probably filled.
I suggest creating a "temp" directory in your home, and setting k3b to use that instead of /tmp.
For example, I set it to "/home/karma/temp".
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When I copy a DVD, I usually make an image using dd:
$ dd if=/dev/dvdwriter of=somefile.isoand burn it into k3b.
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I was able to copy the DVD in a straightforward manner...read on Sony CD/DVD reader, and write on Sony DVDr/w in windows NERO. It took eighteen minutes.
I appreciate the suggestion about using home directory.
I could also increase my ram from 512mb (so I could run windows) to as much as 3gb and perhaps that would provide the needed tmp storage that k3b seems to need.
It is interesting to realize that NERO utilized 512MB to perform the copy.
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Nero used 512M + a lot of swap under windows. Arch uses tmpfs by default, and that can be painful. The solution is to kill tmpfs. 512M of ram should be plenty for a DVD copy. Comment out the tmpfs line in /etc/fstab
#tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0and
umount tmpfsor, as Karma XXL says,
mkdir ~/tmp and point k3b to that directory. Remember that booting cleans /tmp whereas you have to do that yourself if you run with ~/tmp.
tmpfs uses virtual memory (ram and then swap) as /tmp. Your average DVD is over 4 G and that is going to exceed your virtual memory limits.
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