problem with dd and usb drive

[Kahn Seidl]

yes, it was mounted first, and i did a test of a touch banana to make sure i 
could read/write/del from the drive.

martin


>From: Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>
>Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>Subject: Re: problem with dd and usb drive
>Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 15:08:07 -0700
>
>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?
> >
> >
>----
>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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