On 14/07/10 09:37, Phil Thompson wrote:
If that is the case, why do I see tutorials that go on at length about
formatting sticks and using the right file system / partition table type,
only to then splat an image on them with dd ?
I'm with others (and you) in how I would expect dd to operate.
Do you have links to tutorials like this? It may be they're trying to do
something subtly different (eg using of=/dev/sdc1 to write to a single
partition, which has the advantage of letting you create the partition to the
size you want). But the Internet is a big place and there's plenty of
tutorials out there that are just plain wrong!
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