What's the correct way to write an image to a USB stick? I don't write to it while any file systems are mounted. Mounting happens automatically when I plug in the stick, and if I click "Eject" in the GNOME notification, the /dev/sdb block device assigned to the stick is still present, but dead—the open system call fails with ENOMEDIUM.

I've got a fairly default Fedora 19 installation, running GNOME in Classic Mode, still running the 3.11.6-201.fc19.x86_64 kernel.

(Right now, I overwrite the start of the stick with zeros while the system is mounted, sync, unplug, and the plug it in again, for the actual write operation, but that can't be the right thing to do.)

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team
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