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Blanking A Re-Writable CD-ROM
Rewritable CD-RW media needs to be erased or blanked before it can be reused. To do this, we can use wodim, specifying the device name for the CD writer and the type of blanking to be performed. The wodim program offers several types. The most minimal (and fastest) is the “fast” type:
wodim dev=/dev/cdrw blank=fast
wodim dev=/dev/cdrw blank=fast