On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 02:45:47PM -0300, Ben Armstrong wrote: > On 05/15/2012 02:18 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > I am a bit scared by the catastrophic potential of > > cat debian.iso > /dev/sdX > > for X = valuable hard disk. > > I've wondered about that, too, when working on the relevant section of > the Debian Live Manual. > > > Maybe one should advise people to first read a few MB from the stick > > and watch it blinking, before one uses that address for writing > > > > dd if=/dev/sdX of=/dev/null bs=1M count=100 > > Interesting approach. > > As for me, I just never write to a USB key as root unless I'm absolutely > sure I need to. (Yes, I could still trash the wrong USB attached > storage, but that's likely less catastrophic than what I could > accomplish as the superuser.) What I wonder, though, is if it is > universally true that ordinary users will always have write access to a > USB key they've just inserted. Under what circumstances will they not? > Keep in mind, the user may very well be writing the USB from some > non-Debian system.
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