Hi On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 05:45:33AM -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > I plug in a USB pen drive, and launch dd to copy an iso image. > > # dd bs=4M if=debian-live-7.6.0-amd64-rescue.iso of=/dev/sdi && sync > dd: opening `/dev/sdi': Read-only file system
Read-only file system on /dev/sdi?? This is very out of the usual: This seems to indicate that your "/dev" filesystem is read-only, and "dd" cannot create "/dev/sdi" ... What does: ls -l /dev/sdi report? I suspect it will say the file does not exist. If /dev/sdi does not exist, dd will attempt to create it. As a normal file. Which is probably not what you want... Similarly, can /dev actually be written to? The output of a command like this would be instructive: touch /dev/somefile-which-doesnt-exist > > Is there a way to force it to mount read-write ? Probably. But it depends on why it was read-only to start with... -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141219120135.GB25008@hawking
