[Discuss] dd misfire

[dan moylan]

dan ritter <dsr at randomstring.org> writes:
> 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 ifþdora-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 ?

funny how one can review an error a dozen times and not see it.

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

ooops.

thank you.  all is well.

ole dan

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