problem with dd and usb drive

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 21:06 +0000, Kahn Seidl wrote:
> well, anyways, i think it might be small enough to work...
> 
> but, i did the command of=/dev/sda1/file...   and it says its not a 
> directory, and doesnt work?
> 
> 
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did you fix the partition?

is it mounted ? You can't actually write a file to a filesystem that
isn't mounted (my mistake)...

mount /dev/sda1 /media/usbdrive
dd... of=/media/usbdrive/filename...

Craig


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