From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 8 19:51:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-149-77.mmcable.com [24.27.149.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A82BB37B4C5 for ; Wed, 8 Nov 2000 19:51:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 1060 invoked by uid 100); 9 Nov 2000 03:51:49 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14858.8021.184463.262550@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2000 21:51:49 -0600 (CST) To: Francisco Reyes Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to newfs CDRW media? In-Reply-To: <77127532@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Francisco Reyes types: > Couldn't find on the archives. > How do I use CDRW media? Blank it, then write it like a CDR. To reuse it, blank it again. > I have figured/found how to do CDRs both music and data but I can't find > anything about CDRWs. BurnCD has a command blank which reads: > > Blank a CD-RW medium. This uses the fast blanking method, > so data are not physically overwritten, only those > that make the media appear blank for further usage. > > What does that mean? > Basically I want to newfs a CDRW for backups. FreeBSD doesn't support that. A CDRW is a reusable CDR, not a file system. Some of the Windows CDRW tools (provided by the CDRW manufacturer) may provide a file system that lets you use a CDRW that way, but I don't know of any tool that does that for FreeBSD.