usb bootable stick

[Ed Greshko]

On 10/16/2015 12:14 PM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> I don't know and I am not an expert. However, from experiment, observation and inference, I have noticed that unless the usb is mounted, dd does not copy to the device. (This happened as recently as last week).

Sure it does....

[root at meimei tmp]# cat ones
111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111

[root at meimei tmp]# df
Filesystem         1K-blocks       Used  Available Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs             4071532          0    4071532   0% /dev
tmpfs                4082428     327808    3754620   9% /dev/shm
tmpfs                4082428       1520    4080908   1% /run
tmpfs                4082428          0    4082428   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda2           50264772   17507156   30181232  37% /
tmpfs                4082428         96    4082332   1% /tmp
/dev/sdb1          480589520   12122308  444031552   3% /home
/dev/sda1             487652     135783     322173  30% /boot
/dev/sda5          894266040  397001636  451815240  47% /opt
tmpfs                 816488          0     816488   0% /run/user/985
ds:/volume1/video 2879621632 1108568832 1770950400  39% /home/egreshko/Videos
tmpfs                 816488         28     816460   1% /run/user/1029

[root at meimei tmp]# dd if=ones of=/dev/sdg
0+1 records in
0+1 records out
239 bytes (239 B) copied, 0.00298501 s, 80.1 kB/s

[root at meimei tmp]# cat /dev/sdg | more
111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111
111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111

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