Burning needs

[Wouter Eerdekens]

On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 09:26:59AM -0800, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> > > nautilus-burner cannot erase a cd-rw. 
> > nautilus erases automatically if you write a CD-RW, you just can not
> > explicitly erse it to get a blank one.
> 
> yes, that was I meant.
> 
> But what are the alternative?  In my pre-Ubuntu life, I would have
> used gtoaster for this, but I don't really want to install it on
> Ubuntu.   Is there an easy way to erase a CD-RW using the command
> line?  Can a command like cdrecord do it?

Yes. run the command

cdrecord blank=help

for possible erasing methods.

Cheers,
Wouter

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