Thomas Schmitt composed on 2017-11-08 00:44 (UTC+0100): > Ken West wrote:
>> westk[@]goshen]:/home/westk:> sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdd >> dd: failed to open '/dev/sdd': Read-only file system Don't we know it was a GPT disk to start with? If no iso ever got a chance to finish writing all the way out to end of disk, the backup/reserve/secondary partitioning at end of disk would still report a "filesystem" exists, surely conflicting with the start data written from the Debian 9.2.0 iso file. > What the hell ... ? > Why does dd talk of filesystems ? I'd understand if it said "Permission > denied". The superuser isn't what he used to be. > Googling brings no insight: If it was an SD card, the advice would be to > blow air through the card reader. > Is any filesystem on /dev/sdd* mounted ? > If so: Does it help to unmount it before dd ? Also, why are this/these stick(s) getting flip-flopped between sdd and sdc? -- "Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Whatever else you get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/
