How-to erase a DVD-RW

[Polytropon]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:16:26 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar <wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:
> recording 0 bytes DVD will do the trick, i don't see explicit "cleaning" 
> option in growisofs now.

The manpage of growisofs suggests this:

       Note that DVD+RW re-formatting procedure does not substitute for blank-
       ing.  If you want to nullify the media, e.g. for privacy reasons, do it
       explicitly with 'growisofs -Z /dev/dvd=/dev/zero'.



> dvd+rw-format will clear DVD+RW disk.

Definitely much easier.



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