On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 02:11:13PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
What's the correct way to write an image to a USB stick? I
don't
write to it while any file systems are mounted. Mounting happens
automatically when I plug in the stick, and if I click "Eject" in
the GNOME notification, the /dev/sdb block device assigned to the
stick is still present, but dead—the open system call fails with
ENOMEDIUM.
I've got a fairly default Fedora 19 installation, running GNOME in
Classic Mode, still running the 3.11.6-201.fc19.x86_64 kernel.
(Right now, I overwrite the start of the stick with zeros while the
system is mounted, sync, unplug, and the plug it in again, for the
actual write operation, but that can't be the right thing to do.)
You can use the GNOME Disks tool to do this, I believe. It not only
supports mount/umount operations but has a Restore Disk operation
available in the "tools" menu for each disk or partition.
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