R/W

1. Short for Read/Write, R/W is a drive and/or media that is capable of being written to or read from, as well as being written to or read from many times. This term is commonly used and found on CD-RW drives, drives capable of of recording and reading CD-RW discs.
   
   See our CD-RW help page for additional information and help with this type of drive.
   
   
2. Read/Write is also an attribute that can be given to files and directories that allows the files to be read from and written to.

Also see: Attributes, CD Definitions, Orange book