[Discuss] dd misfire

[Dan Ritter]

dan moylan wrote: 
> 
> i'm running fc33 on a lenevo thinkpad, and as the following
> will illustrate was trying to load fc35 onto a memory stick,
> using the same commands i have used in the past.  it
> obviously did not work.  have i missed something?
> 
> moylan Downloads[1140] ls -l Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-35-1.2.iso
> -rw-r--r-- 1 moylan moylan 2009333760 211116:1256 Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-35-1.2.iso
> moylan Downloads[1141] df
> Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> devtmpfs        3.8G  3.8G     0 100% /dev
> tmpfs           3.8G   83M  3.7G   3% /dev/shm
> tmpfs           1.5G  1.9M  1.5G   1% /run
> /dev/sda2       111G   76G   36G  69% /
> tmpfs           3.8G   25M  3.8G   1% /tmp
> /dev/sda2       111G   76G   36G  69% /home
> /dev/sda1       976M  282M  628M  31% /boot
> tmpfs           765M  524K  764M   1% /run/user/1000
> /dev/sdb         58G   50G  4.7G  92% /run/media/moylan/BCKUP1l
> /dev/sdc1        15G  8.0K   15G   1% /run/media/moylan/STORE N GO
> moylan Downloads[1145] sudo dd bs=4M if=Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-35-1.2.iso of=/dev/sbc

You copied the .iso to a file named /dev/sbc.

Since it probably didn't exist, it was created. 

You might have meant /dev/sdc ?

But you shouldn't do that until after you unmount /dev/sdc1.

Typos.

-dsr-