From: "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Resetting USB flash
Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2013 22:13:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130107031330.GA22820@waltdnes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201301051005.31216.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
On Sat, Jan 05, 2013 at 10:05:29AM +0000, Mick wrote
> On Saturday 05 Jan 2013 02:26:18 Walter Dnes wrote:
>
> > One last gasp... were you doing this as root? Regular users cannot dd
> > directly to a device, for obvious reasons.
>
> Yes, also tried it as root. No change. BTW, with the device mounted I
> shouldn't have a problem with dd on a file.
Whoa... you should *NOT* have it mounted when trying to dd to the
device. I.e., it must be mounted if you're trying...
dd if=~/foo of=/media/usbstick/bar
But it must *NOT* be mounted if you want to...
dd count=1 bs=512 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx
Do you run with an automounter?
--
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-07 3:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-04 16:32 [gentoo-user] [OT] Resetting USB flash Mick
2013-01-04 16:48 ` Michael Mol
2013-01-04 17:18 ` Mick
2013-01-04 17:32 ` Paul Hartman
2013-01-04 19:13 ` Mick
2013-01-04 18:43 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2013-01-04 19:16 ` Mick
2013-01-04 20:27 ` Walter Dnes
2013-01-04 23:56 ` Mick
2013-01-05 2:26 ` Walter Dnes
2013-01-05 10:05 ` Mick
2013-01-07 3:13 ` Walter Dnes [this message]
2013-01-07 6:44 ` Mick
2013-01-04 19:12 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2013-01-04 19:29 ` Mick
2013-01-04 22:31 ` [gentoo-user] " Alan McKinnon
2013-01-04 23:59 ` Mick
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