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On Sat, Jan 05, 2013 at 10:05:29AM +0000, Mick wrote |
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> On Saturday 05 Jan 2013 02:26:18 Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> > One last gasp... were you doing this as root? Regular users cannot dd |
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> > directly to a device, for obvious reasons. |
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> Yes, also tried it as root. No change. BTW, with the device mounted I |
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> shouldn't have a problem with dd on a file. |
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Whoa... you should *NOT* have it mounted when trying to dd to the |
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device. I.e., it must be mounted if you're trying... |
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dd if=~/foo of=/media/usbstick/bar |
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But it must *NOT* be mounted if you want to... |
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dd count=1 bs=512 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx |
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Do you run with an automounter? |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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