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I want to format my CD-RW to clear the data on it on Ubuntu 16.04. I have the dialog below to select options:
But when I go to format it, it gives this error dialog:
Error wiping device: Command-line `wipefs -a "/dev/sr0"' exited with non-zero exit status 1: wipefs: error: /dev/sr0: probing initialization failed: Read-only file system (udisks-error-quark, 0)
The drive is a DVD-R/RW drive and I can read the CD fine.
Chloe
Posted 2016-12-04T23:27:54.990
Reputation: 4 502
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Maybe wipefs failed because the disc is mounted? Run
lsblk
to check whether the optical drive is mounted, and do this to unmount it if needed:
sudo umount /dev/sr0
Then try running
wipefs -af /dev/sr0
where sr0 is whatever your optical drive actually is - double check to make sure!
Alternatively, try
cdrecord -v dev=/dev/sr0 blank=fast
Strife89
Posted 2016-12-04T23:27:54.990
Reputation: 36
1If the OP wants to wipe the entire device than (albeit slow and ineffiecent) dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/sr bs=512 may work too. – timotree – 2016-12-04T23:48:54.717
1Yeah! The last line worked! But I had to install something called wodim. It wasn't mounted: umount: /dev/sr0: not mounted. – Chloe – 2016-12-04T23:51:53.977
@Chloe Good to hear! – timotree – 2016-12-04T23:53:08.340
Do you want to wipe it completely (remove any existing partitions) or just wipe a filesystem that is already partitioned? – timotree – 2016-12-04T23:43:24.883