Format CDRW disks?

Senectus . senectus at gmail.com
Tue Jan 4 05:41:53 UTC 2005


On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 07:18:29 +0200, Jonathan Carter
<jonathan at shuttleworthfoundation.org> wrote:
> Senectus . wrote:
> 
> >How do you format CD/RW disks?
> >
> >
>  From the command line, you can use CD-record:
> $cdrecord -v -dao -eject blank=fast -dev /dev/cdrom
> 
> the -v means: Verbose
> -dao: Disk at once (Sesssion at once)
> -eject: Ejects the CD after blanking
> -dev: Specifies your CD-writer device. Could also be /dec/hdc or
> /dec/scd0. (Or 0,0,0 or 0,1,0 or whatever if you're using a 2.4 kernel
> with SCSI emulation).
> 
> I think Nautilus' CD recording tool also blanks recordable media.

The cdrecord worked.. thanks.
I'd still like to know how to do it from within Nautilus though..

Thanks for that.
Marcus

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