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Date:      Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:07:37 -0800
From:      Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
To:        Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: How-to erase a DVD-RW
Message-ID:  <20090212080737.GA91175@thought.org>
In-Reply-To: <4993D343.3010109@gmail.com>
References:  <1234423939.27702.4.camel@ethos> <4993D343.3010109@gmail.com>

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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



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