Re: Fedora Media Writer change is netting us great press

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On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 12:45 PM, Michael Catanzaro
<mcatanzaro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-12-22 at 12:23 -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
>> The wonky
>> partition structure used by images once applied to a USB stick can
>> make them behave very strangely, and in a way a reformat or even
>> repartitioning won't fix.
>
> Really? How so?

The ISO contains three partitions maps that are all mutually
incompatible from an OS standpoint, but manage to very selectively
trick each firmware we support. The experience is different on each
platform, and how aggressively each reformat tool wipes the first ~32K
of the stick if at all.



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Chris Murphy
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