Unmountable DVDs

[Basil Chupin]

On 01/11/13 18:54, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Basil Chupin wrote:
>> On 01/11/13 01:41, Nils Kassube wrote:
>>> Hmm, that's interesting - is the behaviour the same with and without
>>> the force option ticked? On my DVD+RW was an old Xubuntu livecd
>>> image before I formatted it. Maybe it is a feature of the
>>> underlying cdrecord version. Kubuntu 12.04 actually uses Wodim
>>> 1.1.11 - maybe your Opensuse version behaves differently and
>>> ignores the force option?
>> Interesting indeed - in more ways than one.
>>
>> openSUSE does indeed use cdrecord - but not Ubuntu/(?)Kubuntu.
>> http://cdrecord.berlios.de/new/private/linux-dist.html
>>
>> The whole article is worth reading.
> Well, it is an interesting article indeed, but I don't see how it
> matters in this case. We were discussing a difference between Opensuse
> and Kubuntu where the Opensuse version of k3b and the underlying tool
> cdrecord seems to ignore the force option while the Kubuntu version with
> the underlying tool wodim honors that option.
>
> And to get back on topic, the OP was using the Kubuntu version to
> reformat rewritable DVDs which obviously worked. However, formatting
> with k3b is more like erasing the disk. So there is still the original
> question, how to make the disk mountable, i.e. format it with UDF.

LOL!

I think bottom line point here is:

there is NO need to reformat, or if you prefer to use the term "erase" 
then erase, a DVD RW disc because once it is formatted you simply 
overwrite existing data on it. Or, in more simple terms which is 
probably more understandable by people: you DELETE any files on that 
disc using some file manager - like Dolphin or mc [Midnight Commander] - 
and then write to it whatever data turns you on.

Somewhere in my stack of CDs I have a few CD RW discs but it would take 
a bit of time to find them so I cannot test them and make a definitive 
statement, but I would think that there would not be a difference in 
treating one of these RW discs to how you treat a DVD RW: once formatted 
you don't erase or reformat it just simply write to it and whatever is 
on the disc will simply be overwritten.

As the article from the author of k3b states what Ubuntu/Kubuntu uses is 
a fork of the original cdrecord set of tools and this fork introduced 
bugs into the scheme of things.

But bugs or no bugs, and ignoring the "your k3b is worse than my k3b", 
all this is immaterial because once a RW disc is formatted there is no 
need to reformat it. (Unless of course you reformat it in Windows which 
has a different way of doing things as I mentioned - and a search of the 
'net will spell this out.)

BC

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