Format CDRW disks?

[Ari Torhamo]

ti, 2005-01-04 kello 13:41 +0800, Senectus . kirjoitti:
> 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

When I re-installed Warty, I couldn't anymore use Nautilus to write to
the CD-RW disks that I had written in the previous installation. For
some reason the permissions for the disks were changed to root. I wrote
these disks as a normal user to back up my files. I never sudo anything
in normal everyday usage and definitely I don't use sudo (or be root) to
back-up my files.

The same thing happened for my brother, except he's Warty installation
was he's first one and he's CD-RW disks were written under Windows.
Anyway, he couldn't write to he's disks either.

I already reported this in my post "Root owns my CD-RW's after re-inst.
- can't burn". I think this is something that needs attention. If it
indeed is so that people with a fresh Ubuntu installation cant't use
Nautilus to write on CD-RW disks that are not empty, that's a serious
problem for ordinary people. For those of them who back up their data,
CD-RW is propably the most widely used way to do it - they don't likely
buy external hard disks or Iomega drives. Neither do they use CD-ROMs
for daily back-up for obvious reasons.

It's great that people help and send instructions to do this in the CLI,
but I don't know which I would hate to do more - tell a Windows user who
I'm in a process of "converting" to Ubuntu to go back to Windows to
blank he's/her's CD-RWs or mail him

$ sudo umount /dev/cdrom
$ cdrecord dev=/dev/cdrom blank=all

and say "I now you just want to write to your CD-RWs, but if you just
would open a thing called terminal - you'll find it in the...

Regards,

Ari