From ed5eb49b189e2654158adc437ef33ff7cf99a571 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schmitt Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 23:24:23 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Explained recordable CD media. Removed a typo. --- cdrskin/cdrskin.1 | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/cdrskin/cdrskin.1 b/cdrskin/cdrskin.1 index cf4cc13..6a2ae7e 100644 --- a/cdrskin/cdrskin.1 +++ b/cdrskin/cdrskin.1 @@ -86,6 +86,17 @@ Another type of data track content are archive formats which originally have been developed for magnetic tapes. Only formats which mark a detectable end-of-archive in their data are suitable with CD, though. Well tested are the archivers afio and star. Not suitable seems GNU tar. +.PP +.B Recordable CD Media: +.br +CD-R can be initially written only once and eventually extended until they +get closed (or are spoiled because they are overly full). After that they are +read-only. +.br +CD-RW media can be blanked to make them re-usable for another +round of overwriting. Blanking damages the previous content but does not +make it completely unreadable. It is no effective privacy precaution. +Multiple cycles of blanking and overwriting with random numbers might be. .br .SH OPTIONS .TP @@ -343,7 +354,7 @@ Exit with a nonzero value if no drive can be found during a bus scan. List the device file addresses of all accessible drives. In order to get listed a drive has to offer rw-permission for the cdrskin user and it may not be busy. -Busy drives are reported as "SORRY" messages of standard error. +Busy drives are reported as "SORRY" messages on standard error. .br Each available drive gets listed by a line containing the following fields: .br