On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Emmanuel Wilhelm wrote:

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx (take a while and wipe everything)

sudo mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/sda

The key is on /dev/sdh, but when I did the first command, I receive the
message:


dd: writing to `/dev/sdh': no free space on the device
2+0 red recordings
1+0 written recordings
512 bytes (512 B) copied, 0,00164514 second, 311 kB/s

Is my key hs or have I a hope to solve this problem?

Given your example command, dd will simply write to the device until either the read filehandle returns EOF (which /dev/zero should not) or the write filehandle returns ENOSPC.

It's possible that your USB drive has a fault. Are you able to use it correctly on other systems? Does dd perform as expected when you try a different USB drive?


Cheers,
Phil


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