Den 2015-03-13 10:34, Nio Wiklund skrev:
...
> I would suggest wrapping safety around dd with the shell-script 'mkusb'.
> 
> Extra safety can be very important because dd is nick-named 'disk
> destroyer' for a reason: It does what you *tell* it to do without
> questions, even if it is not what you *want* to do (for example wipe a
> drive with not yet backed up family photos).
> 
> mkusb is tested with debian Jessie (and worked reliably after some
> tweaks). If you are interested, I can try to make it work without tweaks.
> 
> There is a PPA for Ubuntu, but for Debian please look at this link
> 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb/v9#from_phillw.net
> 
> Best regards
> Nio
> 

I should add that there is a command line version of mkusb

mkusb-nox

and it works without any tweaks when running as root in Debian Jessie
(tested with debian-jessie-DI-rc1-amd64-kde-CD-1.iso).

Best regards
Nio


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