Bug#511679: installation-guide-i386: Provide information on how to restore USB stick to its previous state
Otavio Salvador a écrit :
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> On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 3:29 PM, M.-A. DARCHE <ma.darche@cynode.org> wrote:
>> parted behaves very strangely on my Debian "Lenny" stable. It accepts
>> only to work on mounted partitions. Is that how it should be?
>
> No, it should work on devices as well.
>
That seems logical to me that it should behave that way,
but it doesn't seem to do so, at least with the stable version
(parted 1.8.8.git.2008.03.2) and on my setup :'(
> What worries me is that you had pasted dd erasing whole device and
> this would destroy the MBR as well and then it might not be a MBR
> issue.
>
OK, I thought that somehow the MBR would not be affected
by dd operations.
> If you:
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> dd if=/dev/zero of=<your usbstick>
OK done
> partprobe
$ sudo partprobe
$ echo $?
0
> parted mklabel <your usbstick> msdos
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$ LC_ALL=C sudo parted mklabel /dev/sdb msdos
Error: Could not stat device mklabel - No such file or directory.
Retry/Cancel?
Thanks for your help and time on this
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Marc-Aurèle DARCHE
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Association Francophone des Utilisateurs de Logiciels Libres
French speaking Libre Software Users' Association
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