On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 10:39:31AM -0700, Thomas C Gilliard wrote:
You can also do it on the "master" stick before doing the dd if there's no data in the Journal you want to preserve.This procedure has to be used on all dd copies of USB
The failures Luke mentioned are due to aging (that may happen prematurely if the formatting doesn't match your stick well enough), not during the copy.Note: I have not seen any failures to USB sticks from using dd.
PS: Thanks for your work on this! :-| CU Sascha -- http://sascha.silbe.org/ http://www.infra-silbe.de/
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