On Sat, Jan 05, 2013 at 10:05:29AM +0000, Mick wrote > On Saturday 05 Jan 2013 02:26:18 Walter Dnes wrote: > > > One last gasp... were you doing this as root? Regular users cannot dd > > directly to a device, for obvious reasons. > > Yes, also tried it as root. No change. BTW, with the device mounted I > shouldn't have a problem with dd on a file.
Whoa... you should *NOT* have it mounted when trying to dd to the device. I.e., it must be mounted if you're trying... dd if=~/foo of=/media/usbstick/bar But it must *NOT* be mounted if you want to... dd count=1 bs=512 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx Do you run with an automounter? -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
