Erasing a CD-RW with a cdrecord command
Last Updated on Friday, 03 December 2010 15:01 Friday, 03 December 2010 14:56
Erasing a CD-RW disk on a Linux system can be as easy as entering one line command using cdrecord utility. The first part of the solution is to find a character device name of our CD/DVD writer. This can be done by a wodim tool:
wodim --devices
OUTPUT:
wodim: Overview of accessible drives (1 found) : ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 0 dev='/dev/scd0' rwrw-- : 'TSSTcorp' 'CD/DVDW SH-S183L' -------------------------------------------------------------------------
From the output above we can see a path to a actual character device file which is /dev/scd0 and the model name SH-S183L. Now insert your CD-RW into the drive and for a full blank use issue a following command:
$ cdrecord -v blank=all dev=/dev/scd0
If you wish a fast blank which take considerably less time to erase use:
$ cdrecord -v blank=fast dev=/dev/scd0
In case if you run into some error during the blanking process you may try to include a -force option:
$ cdrecord -force -v blank=all /dev/scd0
More cdrecord command blanking options:
all blank the entire disk
disc blank the entire disk
disk blank the entire disk
fast minimally blank the entire disk (PMA, TOC, pregap)
minimal minimally blank the entire disk (PMA, TOC, pregap)
track blank a track
unreserve unreserve a track
trtail blank a track tail
unclose unclose last session
session blank last session
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