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Date:      Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:15:00 +0100 (CET)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
Cc:        Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: How-to erase a DVD-RW
Message-ID:  <20090212141444.W81609@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <20090212105424.a710de5e.freebsd@edvax.de>
References:  <1234423939.27702.4.camel@ethos> <20090212101453.I81232@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20090212105424.a710de5e.freebsd@edvax.de>

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> The manpage of growisofs suggests this:
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>       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'.

which is exactly what i suggested - writing 0 byte disc

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>> dvd+rw-format will clear DVD+RW disk.
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> Definitely much easier.
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> -- 
> Polytropon
> From Magdeburg, Germany
> Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
> Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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