Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Resetting USB flash
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2013 06:46:50
Message-Id: 201301070645.01093.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Resetting USB flash by Walter Dnes
1 On Monday 07 Jan 2013 03:13:30 Walter Dnes wrote:
2 > On Sat, Jan 05, 2013 at 10:05:29AM +0000, Mick wrote
3 >
4 > > On Saturday 05 Jan 2013 02:26:18 Walter Dnes wrote:
5 > > > One last gasp... were you doing this as root? Regular users cannot
6 > > > dd
7 > > >
8 > > > directly to a device, for obvious reasons.
9 > >
10 > > Yes, also tried it as root. No change. BTW, with the device mounted I
11 > > shouldn't have a problem with dd on a file.
12 >
13 > Whoa... you should *NOT* have it mounted when trying to dd to the
14 > device. I.e., it must be mounted if you're trying...
15 >
16 > dd if=~/foo of=/media/usbstick/bar
17 >
18 > But it must *NOT* be mounted if you want to...
19 >
20 > dd count=1 bs=512 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx
21
22 Yes, of course, we're saying the same thing.
23
24
25 > Do you run with an automounter?
26
27 Nope! It would drive me insane ...
28 --
29 Regards,
30 Mick

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