GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 591393
Brasero doesn't report current free space, but instead the space you *will* have after burning
Last modified: 2018-09-21 16:42:44 UTC
Please describe the problem: Brasero shows an incorrect free space amount on the blank disc when burning disc images (CDs in particular). Steps to reproduce: 0. Insert a blank CD. 1. Find a disc image file. 2. Open it to bring up the "Image Burning" window. 3. Look at the "Select a disc to write to" box, and read the free space. Actual results: Brasero says that my blank CD has a very small amount of free space (in the range of 60 megabytes). Expected results: Brasero should show the full amount of space for a CD-R, or the space remaining for a CD-RW. Does this happen every time? Yes. Other information: This does not prevent you from using Brasero, but it is a little confusing when Brasero tells you your new blank CD only has 60 MB of space.
Created attachment 140404 [details] picture of Image Burning window Note how Brasero gives a very small value of free space for a brand new blank CD.
What is the current state of the media inquestion? What do you see when calling: cdrecord -minfo with this medium in the drive? BTW: If the output from cdrecord is correct, then you found another reason why brasero should not issue own SCSI commands but rather ask cdrecord to do this because: 1) cdrecord is OS independent 2) cdrecord knows many workarounds for firmwarebugs.
Thanks for the report. This is not a bug as brasero display the free space _after_ the image will be burnt; as you may have seen your disc is 700M and your image is 634M that's why brasero tells you that after burning the image, there will be 68M of free space.
I see. I'm quite alright with that. But the UI caption is very ambiguous. It clearly says "Blank Disc: 68M Free", which can easily be interpreted as "Your blank disc has 68M free". Instead, it should say "68M remaining after burn" or "Disk usage: 634M/700M" or something like that. And even better, move the caption somewhere else. The dropdown should be merely be "Blank CDR Disc", and once selected, a progress bar below it could give the space. That one UI control is just trying to do too many things at one time.
(In reply to Philippe Rouquier from comment #3) > Thanks for the report. This is not a bug as brasero display the free space > _after_ the image will be burnt; as you may have seen your disc is 700M and > your image is 634M that's why brasero tells you that after burning the > image, there will be 68M of free space. Well, that is a bug, as it leads users like me to think that their Quick Blank was not sufficient, so they waste their time on a Full Blank - only to find the same result and then realise it's because Brasero uses a completely, pointlessly unintuitive definition of free space.
Surely, at the very least, the caption should be updated, as Jud said. See also Bug 711264. reopening since the stance on this may be different, 8 years later
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