Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:54:24 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How-to erase a DVD-RW Message-ID: <20090212105424.a710de5e.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20090212101453.I81232@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <1234423939.27702.4.camel@ethos> <20090212101453.I81232@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:16:26 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:
> recording 0 bytes DVD will do the trick, i don't see explicit "cleaning"
> option in growisofs now.
The manpage of growisofs suggests this:
Note that DVD+RW re-formatting procedure does not substitute for blank-
ing. If you want to nullify the media, e.g. for privacy reasons, do it
explicitly with 'growisofs -Z /dev/dvd=/dev/zero'.
> dvd+rw-format will clear DVD+RW disk.
Definitely much easier.
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Polytropon
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