From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F6ED13832B for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2013 06:46:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3CF2121C010; Mon, 7 Jan 2013 06:46:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f49.google.com (mail-wg0-f49.google.com [74.125.82.49]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5216621C010 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2013 06:45:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f49.google.com with SMTP id 15so9569449wgd.16 for ; Sun, 06 Jan 2013 22:45:18 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references :in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :message-id; bh=6pLa6AWGb6EUdnc+SR8hg71Fg9JWDYsDwctDu24icGE=; b=brnwHNeFYlx6/i8nk4e9c4jzpw/zq3iYXk7uckkIbj6BO6yBR8GJY5A3r3taj1k+70 GuCbGMJElhFYSk80VxOpnvkumEOQiQGIiI3s2QoApTf7BiGME8/9Zsd5h2nhDfogrlIu LOKf3bK7YjV7NQYqq+vGe/Ezn3cl/gJ4dgnIw3jGoHUXl8A/da58qHMy/mDL5g8yKsSv Z54bcnz7f2J7gqiFPeMjHQneZQX6KoPLTpIaeGFqma1bRMhzHfPcnJRY7vnRfUU/X9sg eTty8l8DnFVyPfa7La6DNNc2FBpcYm8y5dZ3lN6htESPfK1Rfl1lWocdJUrV+RTVEnwz ri8g== X-Received: by 10.194.171.198 with SMTP id aw6mr80132673wjc.3.1357541117993; Sun, 06 Jan 2013 22:45:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa. [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id fv2sm10531123wib.4.2013.01.06.22.45.16 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 06 Jan 2013 22:45:17 -0800 (PST) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Resetting USB flash Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 06:44:32 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.6.11-gentoo; KDE/4.9.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <201301041632.26752.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <201301051005.31216.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20130107031330.GA22820@waltdnes.org> In-Reply-To: <20130107031330.GA22820@waltdnes.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2352664.hbJNdOFWoW"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201301070645.01093.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: d0a18587-1713-4656-b4f1-9bd9df4e4213 X-Archives-Hash: f52adb208269b245a7031fb7ef615651 --nextPart2352664.hbJNdOFWoW Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Monday 07 Jan 2013 03:13:30 Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sat, Jan 05, 2013 at 10:05:29AM +0000, Mick wrote >=20 > > On Saturday 05 Jan 2013 02:26:18 Walter Dnes wrote: > > > One last gasp... were you doing this as root? Regular users cannot > > > dd > > >=20 > > > directly to a device, for obvious reasons. > >=20 > > Yes, also tried it as root. No change. BTW, with the device mounted I > > shouldn't have a problem with dd on a file. >=20 > Whoa... you should *NOT* have it mounted when trying to dd to the > device. I.e., it must be mounted if you're trying... >=20 > dd if=3D~/foo of=3D/media/usbstick/bar >=20 > But it must *NOT* be mounted if you want to... >=20 > dd count=3D1 bs=3D512 if=3D/dev/zero of=3D/dev/sdx Yes, of course, we're saying the same thing. > Do you run with an automounter? Nope! It would drive me insane ... =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart2352664.hbJNdOFWoW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAlDqbuwACgkQVTDTR3kpaLaOzACgtoQIbbAcXteXpS2pgrA57CgF jY8An0uw63XXfOqvv4FPiXEAjSKa/wAr =HXL1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2352664.hbJNdOFWoW--