On Sun 12 Nov 2023 at 18:27:20 (+0000), Andy Smith wrote: > On Sun, Nov 12, 2023 at 07:03:41PM +0100, Hans wrote: > > I want to dd it automatically like > > > > dd if=/path/to/my/image.iso of=UUID=34567890-afde-.....-1234 > > If your use case is writing an ISO file directly to a USB device (no > partitioning) then I'd think you could use the ID of the USB stick > to mount it in future. You can find these in /dev/disk/by-id and it > will remain the same for the life of that stick.
I would agree with that, though there is one thing you should check first, and that is that you're not using one of a set of identical USB sticks that have the same ID (or, if you are, that you have some physical means of distinguishing between them). Cheers, David.