usb bootable stick

[Joe Zeff]

On 10/15/2015 09:14 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> No, I would not think so. But if the device is not mounted, would it not write to the mount point, especially because you are doing so as root (so nothing to stop you). This logic seems to make sense to me, and indeed is what happens when I have done it accidentally (without mounting the USB drive).

If the device isn't mounted, there's no mount point for the command to 
write to.