A cdrw disk isn't anything like a hard drive. There is no partition table
or anything. Actually it is identical to a cdr disk except for the fact
that the data can be erased. So you can't format it, partition it, mount
it and write it or anything like that. There is a program for winblows
made by adaptec that lets you treat a cdrw disk like a partition, but it
doesn't work very well. The latest version of cdrecord supports cdrw
disks. You basically treat it like a cdr disk and write a cd, but later,
you can erase the disk and start over.
-CJO-
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, David Jackson wrote:
>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
>
>
>
>
C.J. Oster (Linux Guru/Surge Addict)
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