How-to erase a DVD-RW

[Gary Kline]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 09:44:03AM +0200, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
> Gary Kline wrote:
> >iS there an easy way (by cmd-line) to erase a used DVD-RW?
> >I tried K3B and can't figure out where to click!  
> >
> >tia,
> >
> >gary
> >
> >
> >  
> 
> Try something like
> 
> dvd+rw-format /dev/cd0 -blank
> 
> dvd+rw-format comes with sysutils/dvd+rw-tools (you probably have it 
> installed already).


	Super!  (I just tried and the flag is ``-force'', but it works:)


	gary



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