Re: formating DVR-RW

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On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 11:20:33AM -0400, Scott Robbins wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 11:07:58AM -0400, Fred Smith wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 09:30:46AM -0500, Bill Gee wrote:
> > > 
> > > It is possible that the optical drive in your computer does not support DVD-RW 
> > > media.  The only way I know of to find what media are supported is to use K3B.  
> > > If you go to Settings - Devices, you should get a list of readable and 
> > > writable media for each device.
> > > 
> > > Bill Gee
> > 
> > potentially stupid question here: Why would one format a cd/dvd?
> > I've never had to do that, I just write to 'em.
> > 
> > for what purpose or need would one format one?
> 
> If you have a rewriteable one.  I am assuming (and we all know what that
> means :) ) that the OP has such a disk.  

I write to RW media all the time without formatting it.
I might "blank" it, but that isn't the same thing.
After posting I realized that one might want to use a UDF filesystem
on RW media, and I suppose for that purpose one would need to format
it, though I've not done that on a CD or DVD, only on USB.


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