-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Gustin Johnson wrote: >> - From a terminal: >> sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/<usbstick device> count=1 bs=512 > > :) I didn't thought about this, I was searching for an application to do > this :D. Thank you :) ... *lol* I often use dd myself :D. > > I now have no time, but I will try this later (maybe this won't work > too, but this is exactly what I was looking for) > It should work unless the drive is physically damaged or the write protect switch is flipped on.
>> [snip] >> >> Again for what you are trying to do, a hard disk install is probably not >> the way to go. > > But it should be possible to do this and the trouble I've now is > independent of the kind of install. > This "write-protection"-problem seems to be a general problem. A lot of > Linux-only-users, Windows-only-users and Linux-and-Windows-users have > the same troubles. I was an early adopter of USB flash drives. Of all the ones I have ever owned, I have never seen this. I have had drives die after going through the wash, getting crushed, smashed, set on fire and other calamities, but randomly becoming read-only is new. The first thing I would check is: a) do you have the proper permissions for the file system? b) is the write protect switch flipped? Most (but not all) USB drives have this. Of course if the sudo dd ... from above works then I would not worry about it. > > Thank you, dd is a very good idea. I was tired after trying so many > different things and was looking for an application to do this and > didn't thought about dd. > dd is almost as useful as netcat. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkmxOFAACgkQwRXgH3rKGfP0PQCgnCpMdSKqD8scl50PYcNfoh1k 4+4An2Pz23OPOBQUD/KGzAbCwc+fqg9b =jfFj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
