How-to erase a DVD-RW

[Wojciech Puchar]

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> The manpage of growisofs suggests this:
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>       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'.

which is exactly what i suggested - writing 0 byte disc

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