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