Hi, Andrew Wood wrote: > > How do I restore the contents of the USB flash drive so that it has the > > same contents as the /run/media/awood/7160-75C1 ?? Samuel Sieb wrote: > sudo mkfs.fat -i 716075C1 /dev/sdb1 One will normally want to erase the partition table brought by the ISO and instead create the normal partition table of a freshly bought USB stick. The MBR partition table of Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-31-1.9.iso looks like Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type Fedora...iso1 * 0 3768319 3768320 1.8G 0 Empty Fedora...iso2 172 21887 21716 10.6M ef EFI (FAT Fedora...iso3 21888 67407 45520 22.2M 0 Empty The partition types alone will probably cause confusion in various interpreters of USB sticks. Further 1.8 GB of size is probably only a small part of a modern stick's capacity. My youngest USB stick initially looked like Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type intenso_128gb1 * 128 245759999 245759872 117.2G c W95 FAT32 (LBA) (The use of FAT32 for a 100+ GB storage device seems awkward, though.) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- In general one should make a (compressed) device backup of an USB stick before temporarily using it for a bootable ISO: dd if=/dev/sdd bs=1M | gzip >red_64gb_usb_stick.img.gz This can later be restored by gunzip <red_64gb_usb_stick.img.gz | dd of=/dev/sdd bs=1M Beware not to use the wrong of= device address. If you have a safe copier program for USB stick images, gunzip the backup file and use that safe copier to put it on stick. Note that these commands use the base device sdd, not a partition device like sdd1 or sdd2. This way the partition table gets backed up and restored together with any filesystems or other data on the stick. Have a nice day :) Thomas _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
