On 10/7/26 11:10 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
What does /sbin/fdisk -l say about the partition table on your stick ?
I see I remembered wrong on the size: nwe@debian:~$ sudo /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/sdf Disk /dev/sdf: 7.5 GiB, 8053063680 bytes, 15728640 sectors Disk model: UDisk Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0xe1bcdf8c Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sdf1 * 64 524287 524224 256M 0 Empty /dev/sdf2 540 1819 1280 640K ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32) /dev/sdf3 524288 15728639 15204352 7.3G c W95 FAT32 (LBA) nwe@debian:~$ sudo blkid -p /dev/sdf1/dev/sdf1: FSBLOCKSIZE="2048" BLOCK_SIZE="2048" FSSIZE="268402688" PUBLISHER_ID="Debian Live project; https://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive; debian-LIVE_LISTS.DEBIAN.ORG" DATA_PREPARER_ID="live-build 20250505+deb13u1; https://salsa.debian.org/live-team/LIVE-BUILD" APPLICATION_ID="Debian Live" UUID="2026-09-15-05-41-27-00" VERSION="Joliet Extension" LABEL="RECOVERY_DISK" TYPE="iso9660" USAGE="filesystem" PART_ENTRY_SCHEME="dos" PART_ENTRY_UUID="e1bcdf8c-01" PART_ENTRY_TYPE="0x0" PART_ENTRY_FLAGS="0x80" PART_ENTRY_NUMBER="1" PART_ENTRY_OFFSET="64" PART_ENTRY_SIZE="524224" PART_ENTRY_DISK="8:80"
nwe@debian:~$ sudo file -s /dev/sdf1 /dev/sdf1: ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data 'RECOVERY_DISK' nwe@debian:~$ sudo lsblk -f /dev/sdfNAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
sdf iso9660 Joliet Extension RECOVERY_DISK 2026-09-15-05-41-27-00 ├─sdf1 iso9660 Joliet Extension RECOVERY_DISK 2026-09-15-05-41-27-00 ├─sdf2 vfat FAT12 6AA8-DA87 └─sdf3 vfat FAT32 RECOVERY 032E-3BDA nwe@debian:~$ sudo mount /dev/sdf3 /mnt nwe@debian:~$ ls /mnt logs recovery.sh nwe@debian:~$ sudo touch /mnt/hi nwe@debian:~$ ls /mnt hi logs recovery.sh
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