reformat a USB with cd image
Rick Stevens
rstevens at internap.com
Fri Sep 14 23:46:44 UTC 2007
On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 15:36 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 09:54 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 16:12 +1000, Lux Zhang wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have a USB with a livecd image written on it (using dd if livecd.iso
> > > of /dev/sdc ). How to revert it to FAT or other file system?
> >
> > Run fdisk on it to create partitions of the appropriate type, then
> > "mkfs -t whatever" to create the filesystems. In other words, treat
> > it like any other hard drive.
> >
> > NOTE: You only have a limited number of write cycles on a FLASH memory.
> > Use them wisely!
> 500,000 I was told today. That is 499,999 more than a CD-RW.
A CD-RW has more than that, a CD-R only has one. I've murdered FLASH
drives by treating them like a hard disk. Remember, changing just one
byte eats up that limited lifecycle. It's easy to use them up and not
realize it.
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