Formating CDRW Disk

[Anonymous]

Greetings,

I took the plunge and brought a Acer/Philps CDRW drive.
Linux (Slackware3.9) recongized the device (/dev/hdb) w/o problem.
My question is how can do I parititon/format the rewrite-able disk.
One thought I had was create a partition on my HD the same size as
my CDRW disk and then dd between the two. Basically I want to create
an empty (ext2) filesystem on the CDRW disk.


Thanks for your time.

Dave Jackson