local10 (2018-08-14): > Am having issues trasfering iso file to an sd card using dd: > > # dd if=/tmp/winfile.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=1M conv=fsync > > dd completes successfully without any issues but when I try to mount > the sd card I can't (wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on > /dev/sdb1) and fdisk says "Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid > partition table". That's kind of strange as I can mount and read > /tmp/winfile.iso and it seems to be in good order.
That is perfectly normal, an ISO file is an ISO-9660 filesystem image, it does not contain a MBR-style partition table. You can try to mount /dev/sdb itself. But you are probably doing something wrong in the first place. What is your endgame? Regards, -- Nicolas George
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