Format CDRW disks?

[dave]

Doubletwist wrote:
> Ari Torhamo wrote:
> 
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
> 
> 
> I agree here. This is one of the things that keeps me from using Ubuntu 
> myself. Yes I know I can install K3b, but since the point of Ubuntu is 
> to have a cohesive interface, for which the developers have chosen 
> Gnome, I will hold off on  using Ubuntu for my main desktop until it all 
> works properly.
> I really wish I could program something more complicated than "hello 
> world", because I'd LOVE to be able to fix things like this.
> 
> In the meantime, I will just say that Ubuntu is making great headway, 
> but things like this are what is keeping it from being a great 
> Windows->Linux conversion tool.
> 
> DT
> 
> PS. Don't get me wrong, I like Ubuntu and where it's headed. But it's 
> not there yet. :)
> 
> 
> 
> 

But what did the OP want to do with the CDRW once he'd blanked it? I 
assume he planned to write some files to it from the same machine. Or 
did he want a blank cdrw as the result (meaning he didn't want to write 
files to it afterward)??

Nautilus blanks the cdrw automatically. Admittedly, it doesn't have a 
"Blank CDRW" button, but I've never had to *only* blank a cd, I've 
always blanked and written in the same operation.

Or am I missing something?

Dave