On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 8:15 PM, Frederic Muller <fred@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 07/30/2015 09:00 AM, Chris Murphy wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 7:46 PM, Frederic Muller <fred@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> On a sidenote livecd-to-disk didn't work as the MBA didn't see the >>> stick. dd however did work and booted. >> >> Those seem contradictory. The stick is a block device. In order for dd >> to use it, it had to show up the same as for livecd-iso-to-disk. >> >> >>> Gparted however saw a 16GB stick >>> instead of 4GB. >> >> Sounds suspiciously like counterfeit flash. >> >> >> > So I formatted afterwards because I used the flash for something else > and it showed a hpfs+ partition (using dd). I need to have a look at the > livecd gparted view (which is then 4GB - but I think it is very > different) but I was also very surprised by the whole stuff. Gparted > stated that their was a problem with the block size (IIRC) which was 512 > at one place and 2048 at another place... Flash will report a logical sector size of 512 bytes and fib about physical sector size of 512 bytes also. Optical media has a sector size of 2048 bytes, and the ISO image contains an ISO 9660 file system so the terminology may just be getting confused between the actual flash as a physical device and the fs that's on it. *shrug* -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
