On Wed, Apr 25, 2018, 12:44 PM Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 11:20:33AM -0400, Scott Robbins wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 11:07:58AM -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 09:30:46AM -0500, Bill Gee wrote: > > > > > > > > It is possible that the optical drive in your computer does not > support DVD-RW > > > > media. The only way I know of to find what media are supported is > to use K3B. > > > > If you go to Settings - Devices, you should get a list of readable > and > > > > writable media for each device. > > > > > > > > Bill Gee > > > > > > potentially stupid question here: Why would one format a cd/dvd? > > > I've never had to do that, I just write to 'em. > > > > > > for what purpose or need would one format one? > > > > If you have a rewriteable one. I am assuming (and we all know what that > > means :) ) that the OP has such a disk. > > I write to RW media all the time without formatting it. > I might "blank" it, but that isn't the same thing. > After posting I realized that one might want to use a UDF filesystem > on RW media, and I suppose for that purpose one would need to format > it, though I've not done that on a CD or DVD, only on USB. > Yep. Formatting but no burning. https://github.com/pali/udftools/blob/master/doc/HOWTO.udf --- Chris Murphy >