Re: Formatting CDs

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On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 22:35 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 June 2007, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> >On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 08:48 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> >> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> >> > On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 11:20 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> >> >> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> >> >>> I don't know whether I got a reply to my question of how you format
> >> >>
> >> >> a
> >> >>
> >> >>> CD-RW using gnomebaker?
> >> >>
> >> >> I don't think anyone managed to be sure he understood your question.
> >> >> I know I didn't. Please define "format a CDRW".
> >> >
> >> > Well its discouraging since I expalined it several times. I want to do
> >> > to the CD-RW the same thing you do when you formatted a floppy. Once it
> >> > is formatted you could mount it and use it like you use a hard drive.
> >> > Copy files to it using cp, remove files from it using rm, etc.
> >>
> >> The only media I know capable of this is DVD-RAM.
> >
> >That was my original point. You can format CD-RW under windows and use
> >them under fedora but you can't format them under fedora.
> >Why not one might ask?
> 
> Because they don't need it?  They are ready to be written to right out of the 
> box.  OTOH, I just checked the latest k3b, and it has an erase cd-rw function 
> which I suspect is identical to what the winderz box actually does when the 
> format call is issued.  But even that is optional since they can be 
> over-written at any time.
How can people who are so sophisticated about obscure Linux features be
so confused about Windows functions.


I don't know what to respond to people who won't admit there is an
advantage to being able to treat a CD-RW as if it is a hard-drive. You
transfer files using cp instead of k3b. There is no comparison between
being able to blank a CD and rewriting on it and being able to process
files to it with simple cp, rm, etc. commands.

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