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On Monday 07 Jan 2013 03:13:30 Walter Dnes wrote: |
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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 |
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> > > 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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Yes, of course, we're saying the same thing. |
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> Do you run with an automounter? |
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Nope! It would drive me insane ... |
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Regards, |
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Mick |