Why is there no more direct partition support in the new X-CD-Roast?
Partition support was introduced in X-CD-Roast about 4 years ago. At this time using a raw partition to save image-data was safer than going through a filesystem. Today the computers are so fast, that using a raw-partition is absolutly nonsense. The partitions were also a severe security risk, because if you set them wrong, you were able to delete your system. In version 0.98 of X-CD-Roast you can specify an unlimited number of directories where the image/audio-data can be stored. This is much more flexible and transparent. If you still have some extra partitions dedicated only for cdwriting with X-CD-Roast, you simple have to format them and mount them somewhere. Then you just specify this mountpoint in X-CD-Roast setup and you can use it like in former version of X-CD-Roast. (But you also can store any other data on it…
Partition support was introduced in X-CD-Roast about 3 years ago. At this time using a raw partition to save image-data was safer than going through a filesystem. Today the computers are so fast, that using a raw-partition is absolutly nonsense. The partitions were also a severe security risk, because if you set them wrong, you were able to delete your system. In version 0.98 of X-CD-Roast you can specify an unlimited number of directories where the image/audio-data can be stored. This is much more flexible and transparent. If you still have some extra partitions dedicated only for cdwriting with X-CD-Roast, you simple have to format them and mount them somewhere. Then you just specify this mountpoint in X-CD-Roast setup and you can use it like in former version of X-CD-Roast. (But you also can store any other data on it…
