How-to erase a DVD-RW

Tim Judd tajudd at gmail.com
Thu Feb 12 16:47:15 PST 2009


Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>>> which is exactly what i suggested - writing 0 byte disc
>>
>>
>> that writes binary 0, the ASCII "NUL" character.  /dev/zero is NOT a 
>> zero-size file.
>
> yes it is
>
> [wojtek at wojtek ~/NOBACKUP]$ dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/null bs=1
> 0+0 records in
> 0+0 records out
> 0 bytes transferred in 0.000037 secs (0 bytes/sec)
>
>
> /dev/null simply gives EOF when trying to read
we're not talking about null
we're talking about zero


Try again, maybe?


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