Re: Formatting CDs

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On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 03:54 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > 
> > 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?
> 
> I am not aware that one can do something to a CDROM using Windows
> which will allow Linux to use simple cp, rm, etc. commands to
> modify the content of that CDROM. Are you sure you have this right?
> 
> Try this, please...
> 
> Take a fresh CR-RW from the box, and do whatever magic you think
> Windows can do on a Windows box, and put a few files on it. Then take
> the CD-RW over to a Linux machine, and just using cp, copy an additional
> file, and using just rm, delete one of those files. Unmount and eject
> the CD-RW and re insert and mount it using Linux. Then check that
> the new file is there, and the removed file is gone.
> 
> Mike
I have tried it. The CD formatted in Windows will not work in Linux.
Which is why I want a way to do the formatting in Linux.
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