From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 12 08:07:43 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE8AD1065670 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:07:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (aristotle.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C63D8FC20 for ; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:07:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n1C88S67051910; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:08:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:07:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:07:37 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Manolis Kiagias Message-ID: <20090212080737.GA91175@thought.org> References: <1234423939.27702.4.camel@ethos> <4993D343.3010109@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4993D343.3010109@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 22 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.3 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: How-to erase a DVD-RW X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:07:44 -0000 On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 09:44:03AM +0200, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > >iS there an easy way (by cmd-line) to erase a used DVD-RW? > >I tried K3B and can't figure out where to click! > > > >tia, > > > >gary > > > > > > > > Try something like > > dvd+rw-format /dev/cd0 -blank > > dvd+rw-format comes with sysutils/dvd+rw-tools (you probably have it > installed already). Super! (I just tried and the flag is ``-force'', but it works:) gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.23a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php