dvd+rw-format
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: September 2004
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NAME
dvd+rw-format - format DVD+-RW/-RAM disk
SYNOPSIS
dvd+rw-format
[
-force[=full]]
[
-lead-out | -blank[=full]]
[
-ssa[=none | default | max]]
/dev/dvd
DESCRIPTION
The
dvd+rw-format
command formats dvd disk in the specified dvd
drive (e.g.
/dev/dvd).
OPTIONS
- -force[=full]
-
This forces to format dvd as new while wiping any existing data.
- -blank[=full]
-
This blanks dvd while changing to sequential mode.
- -lead-out
-
This relocates the lead-out next to outermost written sector as well
as makes sure there is no virgin surface before it. Previously written
data is not affected by this operation. Useful for addressing
DVD-ROM compatibility,
or playability of already recorded media in legacy units.
SEE ALSO
Most up-to-date information on dvd+rw-tools is available at
http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/.
The manpage for genisofs(8), growisofs(1),
dvd+rw-mediainfo(1), dvd+rw-booktype(1).
AUTHOR
dvd+rw-format was written by Andy Polyakov <
appro@fy.chalmers.se>.
This manual page was written by Osamu Aoki <
osamu@debian.org>
for the Debian project.
Index
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- OPTIONS
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- SEE ALSO
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- AUTHOR
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